{"id":3176,"date":"2013-04-05T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2013-04-05T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:22:20","slug":"brittney-griner-denise-long-and-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/brittney-griner-denise-long-and-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner, Denise Long, and the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/default\/article\/Cuban-says-he-is-willing-to-draft-Griner-4404932.php\">Mark Cuban is thinking about drafting Baylor&#8217;s Brittney Griner<\/a>. If he did, Griner would not be the first woman selected in an NBA draft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/mar\/14\/sports\/la-sp-sn-has-an-nba-team-ever-drafted-a-female-player-20120314\">That honor goes to Denise Long<\/a> of Union-Whitten High School in 1969, one of Iowa&#8217;s greatest athletes. However, as the linked L.A. Times piece points out, the choice by the San Francisco Warriors was voided &#8220;both because it was a publicity stunt and because Long was a high school student, something the NBA did not allow at the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Mark Cuban is thinking about drafting Baylor&#8217;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&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/brittney-griner-denise-long-and-the-nba\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}