Why White (and other) Women Can't Jump

THE WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION (WNBA) kicks off its sixth season this month, and the sports-positive feminism machine is already cranked up. Since its debut in 1997, the league has endlessly trumpeted its slogan–“We got game”–and relentlessly pushed the idea that the women of the WNBA are just as good as the guys in the NBA. Which is bunk.

They turn the ball over, they don’t dribble or pass well, and they can’t shoot. Not to put too fine a point on it: Whoever wins the WNBA championship this year would get blown out by most of the country’s top high-school boys’ basketball teams and every Division I men’s basketball team.