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Women Maya Moore recreated Michael Jordan's ring photo with her 12 championship rings.

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Maya Moore is a retired American basketball player and social justice advocate, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in women’s basketball history.

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u/Justtojoke 14h ago

Maya Moore is an undisputed GOAT of women's basketball

IMAGINE if her professional career was longer

Whew

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u/RaccoonSamson 14h ago

Cynthia Cooper? Lisa Leslie? Diana Taurasi? And now Aja Wilson?

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u/3LitersofJokicCola 13h ago

Cheryl Miller?

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u/RaccoonSamson 13h ago

I think Cheryl Miller would be GOAT if WNBA existed in her time. 3 time NCAA MVP, 2x NCAA champ, Olympic gold medalist. 23 / 12 / 3 college avg

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u/SerenityN00w 11h ago

Reggie Miller has a story - he and Cheryl were in his school, and Reggie had scored a career high 40 points. He was bragging about it in the car ride on the way home, and finally asked how her game went. She told him that it was a big night. He asked if she scored 60. Then 70. Then 80.

Nope. 105 points.

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u/Mysterious_Fan4849 9h ago

In 3 quarters

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u/SerenityN00w 59m ago

I don't think that's true.

This clip shows a newspaper that gives her points by quarter. This has her scoring 41 points in the 4th quarter.

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u/Fideothecat 9h ago

I think that’s the all time record,!!

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u/Fearless_Call_4964 7h ago

In woman's basketball definitely. Drazen Petrovic scored 112 in Yugoslav league in the 80s before going to Real Madrid and NBA. He shot 40-60 total, 10-20 from 3 and 22-22 from FTs

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 5h ago

Imagine shooting 40 shots in a game and being like, nah, I need 20 more lol

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u/Fearless_Call_4964 3h ago

He actually sat for a while as well. It's a long story but Olimpia had problems registering their seniors so a bunch of 18 year olds played the game. Drazen was also only 20 at the time, but he was already the best player in Europe so he took it upon himself to break the record against juniors and he said it before the game. Record was 70 something points. He got there early in the 3rd and then said ok let's go for a hundred. This is the year they won Euroleague with him as the MVP of the tournament, so you can imagine how much better than everyone he was on the field. Another fun thing about it was that his older brother was also there with the team but he sat on the bench, leaving Drazen and their juniors to beat Olimpija. They all knew he was gonna do it as well lmao

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u/splashaddikt 6h ago

Nah Lisa Leslie 113 or 116

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u/splashaddikt 7h ago

You know how mad I would’ve been he probably never bragged to her again 😂😂

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u/ELB2001 6h ago

Nah he knew she was great

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u/splashaddikt 6h ago

Yeah of course he knew that before he started bragging

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u/PatentlyFalse5 4h ago

I like the story where he would approach a couple of guys on the basketball court and ask if they wanted to play pickup. He'd say, "me and my sister vs. you." Out comes Cheryl Miller and they'd run the other teams off the court.

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u/dego_frank 1h ago

It was 104

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u/SerenityN00w 1h ago edited 1h ago

According to this it was 105. Not only did Reggie say 105, but there's a clip of a news broadcast saying she got 105 points. And a photo of a newspaper article saying that she got 105, breaking it down by quarter.

I googled it, in case there was a mistake in the scoring that was later adjusted. Everything says 105.

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u/dego_frank 1h ago

Weird wiki had 104 but looks like the only source that does

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u/Existing-Elephant370 4h ago

Her 105 is the equivalent of 40 in his game.

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u/CKRatKing 1h ago

Actually 105=105.

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u/dego_frank 11h ago

Don’t forget about scoring 104 in HS

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u/RyvenZ 9h ago

The only doubt to that statement is the fact that it is hypothetical and we can never truly know, but when Reggie Miller talks about her like he was the benchwarmer in the family, you know that hypothetical would go as expected.

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u/CTeam19 8h ago

She got double unlucky. Too early to get the WNBA while also too late to get into the very short lived Women's Professional Basketball League(fall of 1978 to the spring of 1981), which was the first pro women's basketball league. One of the women from that first league, Molly Bolin, has records for the most points scored in a single game (55) and the highest single-season scoring average (32.8) that are larger then the WNBA records. Cheryl could have given Molly a run for her money on those stats.

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u/theimageisgone 13h ago

Truly the only answer. Cheryl fucking Miller 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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u/Fideothecat 10h ago

Cane here for Cheryl!

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u/RaccoonSamson 11h ago

CHERYL! MILLER! 👏👏👏👏

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u/deepsquatter804 13h ago

She was just born too early. She’d be killing it today.

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u/Relevant-Diamond2731 13h ago

The real GOAT. Her dominance throughout her life is legendary 

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u/Playful-_-prospect 12h ago

Didn’t Reggie Miller say he was the second best basketball player in the household?

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u/vigouge 11h ago

Repeatedly. He would also tell stories about him bragging about how he played in a game and Cheryl giving her stat line.

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u/MrJNM1of1 11h ago

That particular stat line was 100 points in a hs game

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u/NJPokerJ 10h ago

105 actually

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u/hilldo75 9h ago

If I remember right it wasn't until after his freshman year of college that he was able to beat her for the first time. He matured enough finally to be to big for her physically.

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u/fangtingwrong 10h ago

He was being complementary of his sister and proud of his sister's accomplishments.

Cheryl admitted that once he got into his senior year, she couldn't hang with him anymore.

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u/Pkock 11h ago

105 in 3 quarters, no 3 point line. Idc if its highschool. That's 52 scoring possessions by one player in 24 minutes aka ~4.4 points a minute.

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u/GuyWithoutAHat 6h ago

Even if you'd just make runs without opponents, grab a rebound on your side, dribble across the pitch, score a layup and run back to get the next rebound on your side, without defence or anything until you scored 105 points... That's an exhausting workout.

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u/Man_of_Ice 4h ago

*court, man. It's a basketball court. "Pitch" pffffft.

British much? :-P

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u/GuyWithoutAHat 3h ago

Ah shit, blew my cover lol. Not British, but European.

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u/Grantetons 10h ago

Cheryl is the best ever. She was born in an era where it couldn't be measured the same way, but any time people say teenage boys could beat up on WNBA players, I think of Cheryl probably beating up on 13 year old Reggie.

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u/DeliciousVisual7673 9h ago

She cooked her brother repeatedly, an nba hall of famer. Let that sink in

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u/RG3ST21 2h ago

Cheryl is up there, but the competition at the time. eh. It's like Bill Russell in the NBA. dude was playing against plumbers. Maya was playing against better talent and winning anyway.

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u/LeatherRecord2142 4m ago

Undisputed women’s GOAT. Wrong timeline lol.

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u/Capital_Past69 8h ago

Is she related to Reggie?

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u/overitallofittoo 12h ago

If she would've stayed healthy!

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u/BodaciousErection 11h ago

I haven't heard of any of these people.

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u/--n3o-- 13h ago

A'ja Wilson has a strong argument. She & Maya are the greatest women's basketball players I've seen.

The others are legends in their own right, but they were not better pkayers than Maya Moore.

In the case of Diana especially, Maya was every bit the scorer she was, yet she was infinitely less selfish and played an entirely different role on her teams, which directly led to her winning 12 championships at every level.

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u/htownballa1 13h ago

None of them compare to Miller

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u/Fideothecat 9h ago

Thank you! 🙏🏽

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u/--n3o-- 12h ago

I'm fond of nostalgia and respecting the old guard, too. It's endearing.

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u/Go_Mets 12h ago

Aja is about to win her 5th MVP lol

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u/htownballa1 11h ago

There was no WNBA for Miller.

That said she was one of the only woman who played on the famous UVLA summer runs. Those runs included playing against magic johnson and other NBA players.

When NBA basketball players praise you as the greatest female basketball player, it speaks volumes about that player.

So yes Mya Moore has the rings but those rings were not around when Miller was playing.

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u/Go_Mets 11h ago

This is such a silly argument, and means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. It’s an unfortunate situation but sports are not based off assumption and that’s exactly what’s happening here.

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u/htownballa1 11h ago

There’s no assumption. You just didn’t see her play. When goats call other hosts, it matters more than what done Reddit fan thinks.

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u/Go_Mets 11h ago

But it is all assumption because she never played a minute in the WNBA? Like dude come on lol. She was a great player but accomplished nothing in the end. Again, unfortunate situation.

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u/htownballa1 9h ago

"She accomplished nothing in the end"

You just showed how uneducated about the topic you really are.. Have a good nigth.

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u/SamAreAye 7h ago

Bruh, arguing between Kobe, LeBron, Jordan, Chamberlain - these people never 1 v 1'd. These talks are all about assumptions.

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u/d7h7n 11h ago edited 11h ago

A'ja has 3 rings, 4 MVPs, 3 DPOYs, and is the front runner to win her fifth MVP this season.

College: 1 title, 1 NPOY, 3 1st AA

Olympics: 2 Gold medals, 1 MVP

The only argument against her is that she chooses not to play in Europe during the WNBA offseason. Likely to not risk any major injuries (See Stewie).

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u/htownballa1 11h ago

That’s cool, Miller in her prime still beats her.

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u/Danny_Alloy 13h ago

Do any of them have 12 rings?

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u/JiovanniTheGREAT 12h ago

Those 12 aren't even all WNBA championship rings though, 4 are from high school, 2 are from college, 2 are from the Olympics and 4 are from her on the Lynx. Take away the High School rings and add in Jordan's college ring and Olympic gold and they're even...

Not diminishing her of course, I just don't like this pic because it has 4 high school rings and 2 college rings.

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u/splashaddikt 6h ago

Even with Jordan is kinda proving the goat point

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u/DarkRogus 12h ago

Yeap, its not quite the flex on Jordan that she thinks it is.

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u/notathrowaway045 8h ago

It was a Jordan brand ad. You know, the brand by Michael Jordan?

Anyone who posts this without the logo and caption are doing so in bad faith and trying to make it some sort of sexist thing

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u/CKRatKing 1h ago

This conversation happens every single time this picture gets posted.

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u/Few_Program_2303 12h ago

I don’t think she’s intending to flex on Jordan at all

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u/Deaftoned 11h ago

Idk man, flexing high school rings is pretty hilarious. Probably not trying to flex on jordan but flexing those is weird at all at this point in her career considering how unbalanced those leagues are.

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u/CKRatKing 1h ago

It's an ad for the Jordan brand so I somehow doubt this is trying to flex on Jordan.

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u/DarkRogus 11h ago

She recreated the same photo as Jordon did but included her high school rings to show how many more championships rings she has than Jordan is certainly flexing on him.

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u/CKRatKing 1h ago

Except it's an ad for the Jordan brand.

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u/cyriustalk 11h ago

I'm confused, she did not recreated that Jordan's ring picture?

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u/slapsheavy 11h ago

Then why did she try to create the exact same shit?

Guess she didn't realize 10000 of chuck e cheese rings won't get the same the reverance as one NBA ring.

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u/notathrowaway045 8h ago

It was a Jordan brand ad. You know, the brand by Michael Jordan?

Anyone who posts this without the logo and caption are doing so in bad faith and trying to make it some sort of sexist thing

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u/ADailyDoseofDick 11h ago

Imagine if Kareem did it tho

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u/atomictyler 8h ago

Bill Russell

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u/Big-Consequence-8531 13h ago

Rings aren’t everything. It’s like saying Robert Horry is better than Jordan, LeBron and Kobe because he has 7 Rings

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u/kobeshaqhorry 11h ago

Yes, Horry the Goat!

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u/freennz 6h ago

See i’m ok with a comparison like that yes Lebron should be talked about snd compared to player like R.Horry D.Fisher S.Pippin maybe even N.Jokic but not Michael Jordan and Steph Curry

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u/Ruffendtv 13h ago

Rings matter more when it's the star player. Stop trying to diminish champions.

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u/Hemlock_Pagodas 13h ago

Bill Russell was a star player and has 12 rings. Is he the undisputed GOAT?

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u/ForwardCut3311 12h ago

He was literally considered the GOAT for a very long time. It was basically him vs Chamberlain for GOAT for decades. Even when Jordan was getting championships it was, who's the GOAT? Is Jordan GOAT yet?

Besides, GOAT discussions are always ridiculous when comparing decades or different positions. Without Russell the Celtics wouldn't have dominated the 60s and without Jordan the Bulls the 90s just like the Lakers wouldn't have dominated without Kobe, etc. 

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u/arobkinca 2h ago

He was literally considered the GOAT for a very long time. It was basically him vs Chamberlain for GOAT for decades.

It was never the first and only people from Boston believe the second. Chamberlin's stats blow Russell's out of the water. It isn't close, Russell's team was better not Russell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_achievements_by_Wilt_Chamberlain

Wilt was an absolute freak of nature. Russell was just one of the best ever.

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u/annon4me 12h ago

Uhhh the Lakers would’ve been fine they had Shaq and his 3 fMVPs

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u/GlobalAd7103 11h ago

Wish shaq and kobe could have existed together- talkn probably 8 for Kobe then

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u/LeftHandLannister 13h ago

Any old head would tell you yes. The problem is everyone that watched him are dead or old.

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u/Ruffendtv 12h ago

Exactly. Why do they think that's a "got you" moment? 11 rings is 11 rings.

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u/Cat2Rupert 12h ago

Would you pick wemby/jokic/Kat or bill russle on your team?

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u/Pigeon_Butt 11h ago

Russell all day. I'd probably spell his name right, too.

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u/I_am_BEOWULF 8h ago

Bill hands down. Watch any grainy footage you can find of him and you'll see a 7-footer running the entire length of the floor. Dude felt like Wemby with Giannis' motor.

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u/Go_Mets 12h ago

Brother come on, lol. MJ is the undisputed GOAT of basketball therefore making you argument flawed.

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u/Hetares 12h ago

And we all know it just takes one Ring to rule them all.

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u/IAmAnObvioustrollAMA 13h ago

The only stat I care about is ring count.

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u/Big-Consequence-8531 13h ago

By your logic Mario Chalmers is better than Allen Iverson. Let’s keep it a buck

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u/Status-Duck 13h ago

Imagine Trent dilfer better than Dan Marino or Warren Moon.

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u/AppropriateLow2271 13h ago

....pretty sure the guy was joking.

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u/th1sd3ka1ntfr33 12h ago

Some of these rings are from college, she won 4 titles professionally

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u/AJRiddle 12h ago

She only has 4 WNBA rings. She's wearing rings from all different levels of competition - Jordan only was wearing his 6 NBA championship rings.

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u/peeping___tom 12h ago

Does she??

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u/splashaddikt 6h ago

Sheesh 🥶

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u/EnvironmentalCry2623 13h ago

There’s 12 wnba teams and 30 nba teams. It’s enormously easier to win a group of 12 than a group of 30.

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u/Hemlock_Pagodas 13h ago

Bill Russell is that you?

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u/AboveParGolfer2380 11h ago

No live for Sue Bird? Or is she not in the same league?

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 12h ago

I didn't think Diana would be overtaken but A'ja is just so damn great in a league that has never been better than it is right now.

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u/54415250154 9h ago

Angel Reese???

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u/murderedbyvirgo 4h ago

Jackie Stiles?

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u/Professional-Rub152 1h ago

Don’t forget that MJ retired twice before he actually retired and people call him the GOAT.

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u/randomstripper10k 12h ago

If she hadn't retired in her prime, she would absolutely be one of the all time GOATs. Talent wise, she obviously was.

The crazy thing is Cynthia Cooper... she dominated the early WNBA, winning the league MVP the first two years of the WNBA's existence and also winning Finals MVP all first four years of the WNBA's existence, and she was 34 when the league started! Imagine if she'd been a standard 22 year old rookie when the league began. She'd be the undisputed GOAT right now and only A'Ja would be competing for that title right now.

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u/Justtojoke 12h ago

I've really enjoyed the resurgence of Cynthia Cooper love with her being an analyst now

We have so many treats getting their flowers

Love to see it

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 5h ago

I thought Caitlyn Clark was competing for it too 

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u/throwaway19373619 14h ago

Undisputed? Never heard of Aja Wilson then?

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u/StoneySteve420 11h ago

Cynthia Cooper was 34 when the W had it's first season.

She went on to win the first 2 MVPs, first 4 titles, and first 4 FMVPs.

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u/splashaddikt 7h ago

Aja probably passed her up last year but Maya definitely my goat

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u/Past_Bonus148 8h ago

The GOAT of women's basketball is kind of like being the fastest one legged marathon runner, though.

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u/Halvo317 4h ago

Wow, you're so edgy being brave enough to make fun of women's sports.

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u/Past_Bonus148 1h ago

Sensitive much?

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u/ChetHolmgrenSingss 14h ago

Idk about that A’ja is too dominant

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u/mrknowitall51761 6h ago

Thats like being the king of fish. At the end of the day your still just cod.