So Mark Cuban is thinking about drafting Baylor’s Brittney Griner. If he did, Griner would not be the first woman selected in an NBA draft.
That honor goes to Denise Long of Union-Whitten High School in 1969, one of Iowa’s greatest athletes. However, as the linked L.A. Times piece points out, the choice by the San Francisco Warriors was voided “both because it was a publicity stunt and because Long was a high school student, something the NBA did not allow at the time.”