Saudi Women’s Basketball League Forbids Players From Driving To The Basket

The Saudi Arabian Women’s Basketball League has taken a revolutionary step by forbidding all of its players from driving to the basket. 

Many great basketball minds across the world have acknowledged the analytics that support the strategy of not driving to the basket, but only the SAWBL has been brave enough to completely outlaw the women of their league from doing so.

The rule simply forces the women to play better basketball. 

“Driving to the basket can only lead to three things,” said SAWBL Commissioner Aiesha Cairo, “Turnovers, injuries, and maybe only two points. We don’t want to see the teams handing the ball off to each other because of sloppy attempts to dribble through the defense. We don’t want to see our star players get hurt for all that twisting and turning penetrating the lane. And we definitely don’t want to see them try to do it for only a two-point basket when they can get a perfectly good opportunity for a three-pointer without the risk of a turnover or an injury.” 

The advanced stats support Cairo’s position that the women of Saudi Arabia are better off not driving when playing in the country’s professional basketball league. On the other side of the globe, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Englebert has taken umbrage to the SAWBL’s new measure. 

“We in the United States like to give our women the freedom to make their own bad decision of driving to the lane. As reckless and idiotic as driving to the basket may be, in this country we will always give our women the right to do it.”