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In Thursday’s The Works: when meddlesome owners strike, Rajon Rondo vs. Russell Westbrook, the next Euro cult favorite and Luol Deng returns to Southern Sudan.
But first, Lauren Jackson and the WNBA‘s spirit of innovation.
A New Aesthetic Is Born: Revisiting Kwame Brown and the 2001 Draft got me thinking about the way scouts thought about their job at the time. In the wake of Kevin Garnett, all prospects — especially the ones from Europe — were expected to be unprecedented weirdos.
Have you read Herodotus? It was like that. Foolhardy, and naive, and yet indicative of an impulse to discover a new frontier of basketball. That’s what I feel is behind all this Positional Revolution business: we want to understand, maybe even predict, where the game is headed.
I am done trying to convince people that the WNBA is closing the gap with the men’s game because the fact remains, women just don’t have the size, speed, and athleticism that men do. I see a league that feels a hell of a lot more like the NBA than it did when it started, something that comes across when you compare the game of an OG to one of her younger peers. That’s half-full; to many, the WNBA remains half-empty.
That is, unless you’re someone who still believes in the dream of 2001.
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The Works: Lauren Jackson and the Wild, Weird WNBA
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