plenty of points. plenty of skills on parade. plenty of awesome moves and awesome moments.

And a lean in to to perhaps the least skilled part of the game (the completely overrated DUNK) - adds exactly what .. ?

That and twenty other good reasons - including the social repercussions and blowback of adding yet another (artificial) barrier between the sexes ...

Sorry, Shaq - but that one was just a solid gold stinker. Kinda' like some of those free throws y'all use to ...

... than the NBA in terms of the sport itself. I never got the need of separate men's and women's tees in golf. Two or three yards improvement on a 200 yrd fairway is a joke and a comment on the alleged inferior athletic ability of women.

Why doesn't Shaq look to raise men's hoops by a couple of inches in recognition that as players have gotten taller there's just too many easy under the hoop points?

... it was nice to see team ball. WNBA and women's college BB is more fun than a bunch of superstars in men's ball any day. I'm not looking for plays, I want to watch the game. NBA games can be reduced to a highlights reel, WNBA is just game and it is entertaining with no theatrics and trick shots.

Where did that number cone from?
The LPGA plays most of the year playing 6,400 yard courses (plus or minus 180 yards). Majors are played on 6,600 to 6,800 yard courses.
The PGA plays on courses of 7,200 yards with the same plus minus, with major championships played on course up to 7,600 yards.
We're talking 44 yards per hole, not 2 or 3. 44 yards is a HUGE difference
In addition, there is a sound golf reason for the shorter courses.
The design incorporates things like water & bunkers that make players decide whether they can fly it over the hazard or lay up. If a player can't possibly hit it far enough for the hazard to come into play, they are not playing the course as it was designed.
That's why the vast majority of weekend players shouldn't be playing the back tees. I've moved up because I don't, as a result of age, hit it as far as I used to.
I don't think it denigrates the women's game to play at distances consistent with the distance capability & course design.
I once played in a ProAm with Dina Amacapane. (Her sister, Danielle, was an even better player.)
I was playing tees 30 yards longer & still hitting it by her. But, she she still beat me by 5 strokes, and she spent the day offering tips & advice to the other 2 in our group. She wasn't even locked in, and shot 69. The fact that she was playing the course 480 shorter never made me think anything other than how good she was.
Finally, the game is supposed to be fun. Why would we want to reduce the fun by making the course an insurmountable length?

Though maybe he didn't intend to be insulting.