{"id":3659,"date":"2012-04-15T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2012-04-15T04:39:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T08:39:40","slug":"why-dont-women-score-slam-dunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-dont-women-score-slam-dunks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t Women Score Slam Dunks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040912_0005_WhyDontWome1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There have only been two women who have scored a slam-dunk in the Women&#8217;s NCAA. Brian Palmer answered why dunking is so uncommon in Women&#8217;s basketball:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dunking requires considerable height and women are, on average, shorter than men.<\/li>\n<li>Even for equi-sized players men have a greater jumping ability than women.<\/li>\n<li>Dunking is dangerous \u2013 coaches advise against it because you could break your arm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about the role that puberty plays, why slow-twitch muscle fiber might make a difference, the Michael Jordanesque dimensions a woman would need to consistently score slam-dunks, and why women shouldn&#8217;t despair at their dreams of scoring slam dunks click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/sports\/explainer\/2012\/03\/brittney_griner_dunk_why_are_there_so_few_jams_in_women_s_basketball_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/sports\/explainer\/2012\/03\/brittney_griner_dunk_why_are_there_so_few_jams_in_women_s_basketball_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have only been two women who have scored a slam-dunk in the Women&#8217;s NCAA. Brian Palmer answered why dunking is so uncommon in Women&#8217;s basketball: Dunking requires considerable height and women are, on average, shorter than men. Even for equi-sized players men have a greater jumping ability than women. Dunking is dangerous \u2013 coaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040912_0005_WhyDontWome1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}