Women and NBA

This week we are going to look at the potential of women to play in the NBA alongside professional male athletes. As many know Kobe Bryant was a huge advocate for women's basketball and even said some of the best players in the women's national basketball league are good enough to play in the NBA. He also hoped that his daughter would get the chance to experience the same things he did in the NBA unfortunately that won't be possible because of the horrible helicopter crash that took both Bryant and his daughter Gianna's life. However, Sabrina Ionescu a standout women's basketball player who broke NCAA records while at Oregon is attempting to keep Kobe's dream alive. Recently Ionescu was asked if she thought men and women would play on the same court and her response was that he hoped so. To me this would not only make watching the game more interesting it would be breaking the norm of women have their sports and men have theirs. To see both men and women on the same court competing at the highest level would open so many doors for women athletes. I hope this does happen and we see a change in the women are represented through sports. Sabrina is the perfect person to carry on this dream of Kobe's because she has many fans and is now playing in the WNBA. It is also her dream to play in the NBA and I think a lot of young athletes have the dream to play alongside the "boys" at a professional level.