I’ve talked about Brittney Griner before. The girl is a freak of nature. She’s a senior in high school this year, but she’s been slamming the ball through the hoop since middle school. No joke.
If you think Lisa Leslie and Candace Parker made a statement with their initial dunks (Parker is pictured left, dunking at the McDonald’s All-American contest a few years back), check out Brittney Griner’s dunks.
Two-handed throw-downs with ease? Are you kidding me?
We’ll see more of Griner next year when she takes the court for Baylor.
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Oh, this one burns me. It burns right to the core. It hits home because this is the kind of lack of equality thing I’m talking about. And it hits home because it touches me personally.
I was a 10-year-old kid once. And I didn’t get to play football because I was a girl. I had to stand on the sidelines and watch my twin brother excel on the football field when I knew I would have been just as good of a player. I also remember when I played soccer on an aggressive co-ed team for many years. That is …read more

So Candace Parker is the latest Hot Dog of women’s basketball. She can not only dunk, some people even think she’s the savior of the WNBA.
But 6′8″ Brittney Griner may have something to say about that.
Griner is a freak of nature. She’s only been balling for three years and she’s already a force to be reckoned with on the court. She can dunk but, unlike Parker, she throws the ball down with force with her left, her right, both hands, off the backboard and even after spinning a full 360 degrees.
See for yourself:

Griner grew eight inches during her …read more