Do you watch men's basketball or women's basketball? Some people don’t even think that there is a women's basketball. Women's basketball has been around just as long as men's its just that women have to do a lot of jobs around the house, like take care of the kids. Although women's basketball is not as popular as men's, it still should be just as important.
Women's basketball started in 1892 and men's started in 1891. In the olden days women didn't have that much freedom. It only started a year after men's did. Basketball was invented in Massachusetts by a guy named James Naismith. The first ever women's basketball game was on April 4th, 1896, played by the two college's Stanford and Berkeley. Although the first two games were between Berkeley and Stanford it was invented at Smith College. Back when it was invented the rules were different by the genders. Another name for women's basketball was net ball but it all eventually changed to basketball. Women's basketball steadily became more popular throughout the years. It started to go into to different countries, and also got into the Olympics in 1976.
Men's basketball is really popular because every night when you go to the sports channels there are rarely ever women's basketball on. It is mostly the NBA or MLB(which is men's baseball). Also the NBA players really only do it for money it seems like they are not really wanting to play when you watch them. They show off there skills but they are doing nothing good for their reputation. The women that play for the WNBA are more intense and more exciting to watch because they are playing because they want to not because they want to show off like the men do. They also don’t get paid nearly as much.
I think that people don't want to watch the women is because they think that the carrier is not going to last if they decide they want to have a family. Also people around the world believe that women are not as tough as men. That is not necessarily true because there are many women that work their tails off in any thing they do just to get where they are now. Everything is the same about men's and women's other then the ball size. The ball that women play with is size 28.5(28 and a half). It's only because they have smaller hands. In 1976 the women got a bronze medal for the Olympics in basketball, in 1984,1988,1992,1996,2000,2004,2008 and in all of those years the women got gold medals in basketball against all of the other countries that participated. The WNBA was only created in 1996, which was not that long ago. Looking at the players and teams the WNBA has come a long way, but not as far as the NBA.
In conclusion, Women's basketball should become more important to basketball lovers. Watching the WNBA or Women's college basketball should have more people believing that they are just as good as men.
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