[jjgold]

She just might be already as a Freshman

Carrying Baylor

[Fishhead]

No, Denise Long..............do a google search on her.

[flyingillini]

She is a great player and hopefully has a long career!

[Cuse0323]

She is a beast but how is she still playing after throwing that punch this year.

[Muddy]

Yeah what did she serve, a 1 game suspension? What about LeGarrette Blount? A whole season.
So I guess you're right, goes off easy cause she's carrying a team.

[jjgold]

She must of set NCAA record for blocked shots after 3/4 of season

[rm18]

Nobody compares to Griner, impact on the defensive end is better than anyone. Baylor was like +450 to win this game and blew them out.

[Jive]

Not even close to the most dominate center of all time. No where near the great hall-of-fame centers of the late 70's and early 80's. Give her time but she has a LOOOOONG way to go to be on the level of the best of all time.

[Chi_archie]

greatest female dunker to ever grace the earth's crust

[Fishhead]

Not even close to the most dominate center of all time. No where near the great hall-of-fame centers of the late 70's and early 80's. Give her time but she has a LOOOOONG way to go to be on the level of the best of all time.

The one and only, Denise LONG..............




It ws the winter of 1965 when a tall, dark-haired girl from Whitten, Ia., began a high school basketball career that may never be matched.

As a freshman at Union-Whitten High School, Denise Long scored 920 points, and that was just the beginning. For three seasons thereafter, the 5-foot 11-inch brunette dominated the state scene as no other player ever has. She scored 1,388 points as a sophomore, added 1,946 as a junior, then averaged an all-time record 68.5 points and totaled 1,986 -- both still national marks -- as a senior to wind up with 6,250 for a four-year career.

Since then her life has been filled with both highs and lows. Today, at age 59, Denise Long-Andre becomes the 100th person and only the fifth woman to be elected to The Sunday Register's Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.

There were many highlights in Long's prep career -- a 111-point performance against Dows in 1968, a state championship the same year in which she scored a state-tournament record 93 points in the first round against Bennett, a record 282 points in four games and a dramatic 113-107 overtime championship victory over Everly and Jeanette Olson, a game that ranks as the state's most memorable title contest.

When she graduated a year later, her name had been spread across the country.

She was the first woman ever drafted by the National Basketball Association -- in the eighth round by Franklin Mieuli, then the owner of the San Francisco Warriors -- and immediately was besieged by national television celebrities, including Johnny Carson.

"Even before I was drafted, I was fatigued with basketball," Denise recalls. "I was tired of it. For years I'd been practicing four hours a day ... striving to be the best.

"But when I was drafted and sought by Johnny Carson, I told myself I couldn't turn this down and decided to go to San Francisco even though I wasn't really interested in playing."

DENISE WAS 19 then, and she had been playing basketball for a long time. At age 12, she made a pact with herself to try to be the best. For four hours a day, regardless of the weather, she would work out in a park that now is appropriately called "Denise Long Park."

[Grind House]

She's a monster. She just bitch slapped Pat Summitt out of the tournament. How many times you see that shit happen? She's only a freshman, and putting up 27pts. 10blks.

[Fishhead]

The one and only, Denise LONG..............




It ws the winter of 1965 when a tall, dark-haired girl from Whitten, Ia., began a high school basketball career that may never be matched.

As a freshman at Union-Whitten High School, Denise Long scored 920 points, and that was just the beginning. For three seasons thereafter, the 5-foot 11-inch brunette dominated the state scene as no other player ever has. She scored 1,388 points as a sophomore, added 1,946 as a junior, then averaged an all-time record 68.5 points and totaled 1,986 -- both still national marks -- as a senior to wind up with 6,250 for a four-year career.

Since then her life has been filled with both highs and lows. Today, at age 59, Denise Long-Andre becomes the 100th person and only the fifth woman to be elected to The Sunday Register's Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.

There were many highlights in Long's prep career -- a 111-point performance against Dows in 1968, a state championship the same year in which she scored a state-tournament record 93 points in the first round against Bennett, a record 282 points in four games and a dramatic 113-107 overtime championship victory over Everly and Jeanette Olson, a game that ranks as the state's most memorable title contest.

When she graduated a year later, her name had been spread across the country.

She was the first woman ever drafted by the National Basketball Association -- in the eighth round by Franklin Mieuli, then the owner of the San Francisco Warriors -- and immediately was besieged by national television celebrities, including Johnny Carson.

"Even before I was drafted, I was fatigued with basketball," Denise recalls. "I was tired of it. For years I'd been practicing four hours a day ... striving to be the best.

"But when I was drafted and sought by Johnny Carson, I told myself I couldn't turn this down and decided to go to San Francisco even though I wasn't really interested in playing."

DENISE WAS 19 then, and she had been playing basketball for a long time. At age 12, she made a pact with herself to try to be the best. For four hours a day, regardless of the weather, she would work out in a park that now is appropriately called "Denise Long Park."

in which she scored a state-tournament record 93 points in the first round against Bennett,



I recall listening to this game on the radio as a young child

[Jonah]

Biggest thug of all time.

[nosniboR11]

She is a beast but how is she still playing after throwing that punch this year.

becuase they let these trashy crickets continue to play even after stuff that would of had anybody else suspended for the year

[AMBlai01]

Is this really a thread about Women's basketball....wow

[Fishhead]

Is this really a thread about Women's basketball....wow

[jjgold]

She has more impact on a game than anyone I have seen in a very long time

[eidolon]

why are you talking about ant hills, when you can talk about Mountains?

[StraitShooter]

greatest female dunker to ever grace the earth's crust

[StraitShooter]

greatest female dunker to ever grace the earth's crust

Do you have the crust on your mind from that movie that it shifted just recently?

[eidolon]

She moves like a guy. She should have her testosterone levels checked. She could be a hermaphrodite.

[bookie]

Is this really a thread about Women's basketball....wow

The times they are a changing. The "W" tips off in just 48 more days.

[jjgold]

I still think she had a sex change or something very young, she is too good to be a woman

[soli]

I can say she is the most dominate player in the college game right now. She is so much better than the rest.

[babyanni]

she/he has an adams apple look close

[jjgold]

I wonder if anyone has ever confirmed she is a woman??????

[babyanni]

jj im serious about the adams apple nobody thinks thats a little strange?

[rm18]

good call jj this makes up for the Derrick Rose thread

[ttwarrior1]

needs a gender test

[The Kraken]

JJ's Drose thread is a classic. Griner's voice is pretty deep and she looks a lot like Jakhim Noah. Shes gotta have XXY chromosomes

[Smoke]

she could play in NBA

[jjgold]

Nailed this one

She is by far

[DustyRhodes]

She is a Man

[yisman]

I found it funny when they were gushing over how she dunked in a game.

If you're 6'8 and can't dunk, there's something seriously wrong.

[Big Bear]

haha yeah she does act like a man. I can't stand watching womens basketball even for 5 seconds.