You Dunk Like A Girl

And that's not an insult anymore:

The buzz reached trendy L.A., but it happened inside a gym
in Oklahoma City on Monday night during the McDonald's High School
All-American dunk contest, an ESPN-worthy event with a history of
winners that reads like the cast of "Space Cowboys": LeBron James,
Vince Carter and Davis, to name a few.
Competing against five fellas, Candace Parker carried herself over a
threshold when she approached her last dunk from the left lane of the
court. Tucking her eyes behind the crook of her elbow, playing peekaboo
with the hoop, she lifted her 6-foot-3-inch frame off the floor on a
surgically repaired leg and palmed the ball just tight enough to shove
it down the throat of the net � in a ladylike way, of course. "The
whole gym erupted," Parker's mother, Sara, told The Daily Herald of
Arlington Heights, Ill., a suburban Chicago town near the family's home
in Naperville. "All the boys jumped off the sidelines and ran onto the
court and grabbed her."
The unconditional response for Parker is significant in its purity. The
guys didn't care if she used a women's ball or if the Tennessee Lady
Vols' incoming star benefited when her competitors botched more
difficult dunks.

Posted by flow Frazao on April 1, 2004 at 10:32 AM | Permalink