RE: WNBA in Boston

["Ross . James" <JRoss@drc.com>]

	    Forgive me for being unable to resist jumping in on this
subject.  I'm a proud father
	of two basketball-playing girls (and one basketball-playing son
and a basketball playing
	wife), a many-years coach, and a recent league commissioner for
girls basketball.  The
	women's sports are definately here to stay, and are showing
significant progress every
	year.  Realistically though, it will be many years (10+ ?)
before a woman will likely be 
	able to play at the NBA level.  At this time the women's play is
well below the rim and
	nowhere near the physical level seen routinely in the NBA (or
even CBA).  However, 
	that statement is not meant to diminish the current level of
play.  The application of 
	fundamental basketball skills (passing, dribbling, shot
selection, etc.) seems much
	better in the USA women's professional leagues than frequently
displayed in the (one-
	on-one) play of the NBA.  And there are many spectacular female
players at the 
	professional level now.

	    If any of you local (New England) fans want to see a
female-Celtics(-like) team, you
	need to forget the WNBA and instead watch the New England
Blizzard team of the 
	American Basketball League (ABL).  They are likely to make the
playoffs this year.
	They play home games in Springfield, MA and in Hartford, CT
(both about 1& 1/2 to  2
	hours away from the Boston region.  Their prices are not overly
expensive.  The players
	take their role model responsibilities very seriously (unlike
the NBA lately)!  And best
	of all, they are coached by former Celtics great K.C. Jones.

	    Thanks for your patience during mini ABL commercial.  My
best to the many
	female Celtics fans on this list, and a big round of "boos" to
those list members
	who apparently haven'y yet left the 1950s and 1960s behind.

	    --  Jim