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05-27-2008, 11:20 AM
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12 yr old girl banned from playing with the boys
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05-27-2008, 11:53 AM
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Re: 12 yr old girl banned from playing with the boys
That's a pretty ****ing stupid reason to not let her play. It's cool that they gave her a ball and jersey from the WNBA at the end. She's got a big dream of getting to the NBA.
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05-27-2008, 01:16 PM
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Re: 12 yr old girl banned from playing with the boys
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Originally Posted by Basel57
That's a pretty ****ing stupid reason to not let her play. It's cool that they gave her a ball and jersey from the WNBA at the end. She's got a big dream of getting to the NBA.
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I'm sure the WNBA doesn't like her saying the NBA is her dream, but like the guy said "Somebody got to do it"
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05-27-2008, 05:34 PM
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Re: 12 yr old girl banned from playing with the boys
The NBA huh, thats a very tall dream
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05-27-2008, 11:43 PM
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She doesn't look that good to me.
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05-28-2008, 03:23 PM
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Re: 12 yr old girl banned from playing with the boys
Just an example of precocity along with having tall genes. She's literally a 7 footer compared to the other kids. I mean one time for fun I played a 1-on-4 against 7th graders when I was in 10th grade, and beat them with ease despite going easy on them... Those NBA dreams will die real soon once she gets to HS.
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05-29-2008, 08:19 AM
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Re: 12 yr old girl banned from playing with the boys
http://blogs.chron.com/jeromesolomon...erica_g_1.html
Man up, America: Let the girls, boys play together
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Six feet tall, and 12 years old with nice handles and a sweet jumper, Jaime Nared is just too good.
Too good for boys, that is.
Nared has been banned from competing in a private basketball league at a facility in Beaverton, Ore., because of a rule against having coed teams. At least that's the story the league is trying to get the world to believe.
Nared's mother thinks her daughter's ban has more to do with dominating play against an all-boys team the day before she was told she wouldn't be allowed to continue competing in the league.
"She scored 30 points," Reiko Williams told The Oregonian. "I remember one play. She stole the ball, dribbled up court and made a behind-the-back pass to a teammate. He missed the lay-in, and she grabbed the rebound and put it in. I think it was just too much for some of those parents.
"The next day, she came home and said they wouldn't let her play with the boys anymore."
Apparently a handful of girls have played on boys teams over the years in this league. Nobody had a problem with it until Jaime started dropping dimes like Candace Parker.
She is too good to play with girls her own age. And her parents - wisely I'd say - are concerned about allowing her to get into the world of travel basketball where their sixth grader would have to socialize with 15- or 16-year-old girls who might be closer to her talent level.
OK, the video of Jaime playing is quite humorous, and you can see she is blessed with a tremendous size and talent advantage over the boys, but so? Face it, some people are better athletes than others. Is there such a thing as too good?
Any of you have a problem with your boy playing basketball against a girl?
If your son came home crying because a girl his age blocked his shot, then went coast-to-coast and dropped a jump hook in his face, would you try to get her kicked out of the league?
You ought to man-up, and teach him a pump fake.
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05-31-2008, 11:36 AM
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Re: 12 yr old girl banned from playing with the boys
Don't know if I agree with that. I mean if it was already a co-ed league and they weren't going to let her play I'd be upset and support her. But if it wasn't a co-ed league then why push it? I mean I was a SHORT kid when I was growing up does that mean I should've pushed to play in the all-girls leagues because I did better with the smaller ball???
Funny how it's a one way street. I mean girls got to join the Boy Scouts but boys can't join the Girl Guides. Men can't join a women's gym but the regular gyms had to add a women's only area.
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06-03-2008, 01:06 AM
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Re: 12 yr old girl banned from playing with the boys
welll i dont meant to be sexist but guys usually have naturally better physical abilities so ya
if you want to join the women's league I guess you should be allowed but thats just wussy why would you do that?
however if a girl is good enough to compete with the guys thats pretty rare and should be allowed IMO
of course she isnt even playing against varsity or Jv teams or anything
remember OJ Mayo averaged 25 points (somewhere around that) as a 7th grader
not comparing her to him
but she is playing in a park league or w/e thats not that crazy
The reasoning of the parents that the boys don't play the same around girls kind of makes sense but not at that age
when I was 11-12 years old i used to play at a local park league and we had girls/boys on teams together and it was never a problem
i remember boys going hard to the floor against the girls and fighting for the ball
when you are at that age you don't really care about that stuff
plus at a young age girls are often as tall or taller as most boys but than the guys start growing at around 13-15 years old
i'm 99.999 she won't make NBA
and maybe not even WNBA
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