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RON HART: The WNBA — Giving Prison Basketball A Bad Name

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19.08.2026

Capitalizing on the WNBA’s inability (or unwillingness) to define what a woman is, several ex-NBA players have declared for the WNBA draft. I like that; it takes balls.

Could men in the WNBA be the final frontier of diversity, equity and inclusion?

In a development that has left the nation’s most progressive sports fans clutching their participation trophies and muttering about “lived experience,” several male athletes have declared their intention to enter the WNBA draft. The reaction has been everything one would expect from a culture that spent a decade insisting biology is a social construct—until biology started dunking in the paint.

The logic, we are told, is airtight. And if a man identifies as a woman, or merely feels that the women’s league offers a more welcoming competitive environment, who are we to stand in the way of his dreams? After all, the WNBA has long been marketed as a sanctuary of empowerment.

Caitlin Clark has put the WNBA on the map. I have never watched it until now, but if I had wanted to watch basketball where no one can dunk, I would go see an Emory University men’s team play. (RELATED: ‘It’s........

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