Show Me Something podcast<\/a> on Thursday, Cunningham actually agreed.<\/p>\n“This is my personal opinion. But if you are a professional football player, basketball player, really any sport\u2026 If you’re in that elite level group, yeah, you should be able to beat the girls,” she said. “I’m not surprised by that. I just don’t get why it’s continuing to get brought up.”<\/p>\n
She continued: “If women are saying, \u2018He couldn’t beat them,\u2019 yeah, he could. Any NBA star could beat a female in high school,” she said. “I don’t want to be unrealistic or delusional. Like, men are just stronger, bigger, athletic. They just are a different build. So if you put them up against females, yeah, they’re gonna win.”<\/p>\n
When she and co-host West Wilson learned Porter had been talking about 8th graders vs. a WNBA team, Cunningham doubled down. Although she did clarify, they would have to be elite athletes \u2014 not just your run-of-the-mill middle school boys.<\/p>\n
“The context of it is fair,” she said. “If [the 8th graders] are future pros, it just depends how big they are. And the majority of the time, if they’re going pro, unless you’re a late bloomer, you’re already pretty big.<\/p>\n
“So I would say that that\u2019s probably true. It\u2019s probably true!”<\/p>\n
Cunningham added she’s not trying to disrespect her fellow female hoopers. She’s just stating what she considers reality.<\/p>\n
“I just don’t think that’s a fair matchup,” she concluded.<\/p>\n
For the record, Porter’s comment that he played against a college-aged Cunningham when he was an 8th grader might not have been completely true. She is, after all, just two years older than he is.<\/p>\n
Still, Cunningham threw her support behind MPJ<\/a>, saying he was “click-baited” and taken out of context. A big ol’ nothingburger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever guard explained that men are just \u201cstronger, bigger, athletic” and the matchup isn\u2019t \u201cfair.” PublishedNovember…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-310068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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