Word: dunks
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Margo, you're missing out. Great advances have been made in the field of throwing down recently. 5'4 Spud Webb won the 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Slovenian guard Marko Milic once dunked over a Honda Del Sol. Vince Carter leaped over the head of a French seven-footer at the Olympics this past summer...
Granted, they are all guys, but even that's not an excuse anymore. Before the American Basketball League--the WNBA's chief rival--folded a couple of years back, Sylvia Crawley jammed blindfolded during the ABL's own dunk contest...
Imagine the publicity you'd get as the first woman ever to dunk in a professional game. When the commercials insist that WNBA players have "got game," a picture of your thunderous dunk over some poor member of the Miami Sol would be there to back it up. A lot of fans would think that the chance of seeing you dunk was worth the price of admission. I would...
Your career would take off. You'd be a real Star--not just the kind that ends with "zz." You could dunk and be a terrible player from that point on, and the fans would still vote you on to the All-Star team until...
Imagine what your dunk would mean for women's sports. It probably wouldn't rival Billie Jean King's victory in the Battle of the Sexes, but I think that your dunk would be much more compelling than Brandi Chastain ripping off her shirt after scoring in the Women's World...