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It is certainly possible Diggins will go down the road of spending more time and energy on looking good than actually being good. Now, for the most contentious point of the three. It's hard to fault Diggins for striking while the iron is hot, even if her on court accomplishments don't quite stack up to the players who have gone here before her. On the other hand, they did not hesitate to use Danica Patrick even though she has had only moderate success as a driver. She is perhaps the greatest tennis player to ever pick up a racket, but not someone who has the traditional model look. The first time they used an athlete it was Steffi Graf. Sports Illustrated has a mixed record when it comes to selecting athletes to use as models. Obviously Diggins, coming off of a disappointing rookie season, doesn't have the hardware those three had when they were in the issue.
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Nikki McCray also had a gold medal, plus she had won MVP and a championship in the ABL. Like Candace Parker a few years later in ESPN's body issue, Swoopes wanted to show off how her body had recovered from childbirth. Not only did she have a gold medal, an NCAA title, and two WNBA rings, but she had generated a huge amount of press with her pregnancy and quick return in the WNBA's first season. Sheryl Swoopes was arguably the most famous women's basketball player in the world in 1999. She also had a couple of Olympic silver medals and an MVP to her credit. Lauren Jackson was a member of the reigning WNBA champions when she was in the swimsuit issue. The W is too well established for anyone to expect anything along those lines at a game.įor the second point, whether Diggins has a resume sufficient to warrant this kind of attention, it's interesting to compare her to the other three who made the issue. Let me check out this basketball game on ESPN". Nobody is going to see this magazine and say "I want to see more scantily clad, athletic babes. Even Tamara Stocks appearing in Playboy ( NSFW) didn't make a dent. The annual appearances by one player or another in ESPN's body issue hasn't either. None of the previous appearances by players in the swimsuit issue made any impact. This isn't going to affect the WNBA in any meaningful way. Let's deal with the absurd diversion first. What do these previous appearances by WNBA players in bikinis tell us about the likely results of Diggins' venture into cheesecake?
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Nikki McCray and Sheryl Swoopes each appeared in single shots in 1999 while Lauren Jackson got the full pictorial treatment in 2005. Third, there has been concern that any publicity she might garner for the WNBA from this pictorial might be damaging to the credibility of the league and people who come to games based on her appearance in the magazine might be expecting more of the same or at least some WWE Diva style faux action with plenty of gratuitous skin.Īs fate would have it, Diggins is not the first WNBA player to grace the pages of the swimsuit issue. Second, some have said Diggins has not "earned" the chance to make this appearance, her athletic accomplishments are not sufficient for her to be chosen over other, more deserving players, and she might prove to be an embarrassment to the sport like Anna Kournikova was for tennis when she gained so much notoriety for her appearance despite modest achievements on the court.
First, it has been suggested she is more interested in building her brand than her game and spends more time focusing on being a celebrity than on being a basketball player. Three separate issues have arisen from Diggins' appearance in the swimsuit issue.
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She is quite beautiful and does not look at all out of place among the professional models who fill the bulk of the issue. Not just a shot or two, like they sometimes do with athletes, but a full scale pictorial. Tulsa Shock guard Skylar Diggins is in this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
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