{"id":650296,"date":"2013-04-03T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223536"},"modified":"2013-04-03T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:07:33","slug":"mark-cuban-brittney-griner-draft-a-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650296","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban: Brittney Griner Draft A Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he would be willing to draft Baylor women&#8217;s basketball star Brittney Griner if she&#8217;s the best available player at the Mavs&#8217; spot. <\/p>\n<p>ESPN <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/dallas\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/9127664\/mark-cuban-give-brittney-griner-opportunity-dallas-mavericks\">quotes Cuban<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If she is the best on the board, I will take her,&#8221; Cuban said before the Mavs&#8217; Tuesday night game against the Los Angeles Lakers. &#8220;I&#8217;ve thought about it. I&#8217;ve thought about it already. Would I do it? Right now, I&#8217;d lean toward yes, just to see if she can do it. You never know unless you give somebody a chance, and it&#8217;s not like the likelihood of any late-50s draft pick has a good chance of making it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Griner dunking and &#8220;exploding&#8221; for 50 points: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2724WBdPbU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Griner is 6&#8242; 8&#8243;, 207.2 lbs, according to Google&#8217;s Knowledge Graph. She is said to wear a men&#8217;s show size 17 or 18 shoe and to have an arm span of 86&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>Griner is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/20\/sports\/ncaabasketball\/brittney-griners-final-season-draws-applause-and-crowds.html?pagewanted=all&#038;_r=1&#038;%23038;\">reportedly<\/a> the first NCAA basketball player ever to score 2,000 points and block 500 shots. She won the 2012 AP Player of the Year. <\/p>\n<p>Cuban reportedly said that if the Mavericks don&#8217;t draft Griner, he would Have &#8220;no problem whatsoever&#8221; inviting her to try out for a spot on Dallas&#8217; summer league team. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=8UMGLTrAKmE:c-GI08k7Wz4:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/8UMGLTrAKmE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he would be willing to draft Baylor women&#8217;s basketball star Brittney Griner if she&#8217;s the best available player at the Mavs&#8217; spot. 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