For years, women have been complaining about not being equal in sports. Take, for example, women’s basketball before the WNBA was formed; players were forced to play overseas. Things have got better. However, most players still have to go abroad, even though they’re getting paid.

Now, let’s talk about wheelchair basketball players. Like WNBA players, Wheelchair basketball players are forced to play overseas because the National wheelchair basketball Association (NWBA for short) doesn’t pay players, mainly because it doesn’t get the national attention it should.

You know how they say life isn’t fair? That surely applies to wheelchair basketball players.

People like to say that women’s basketball has come a long way, and people get excited about the WNBA, but is that true? Do people other than women care about the WNBA? Maybe to little girls, but as a whole, no.

It’s sickening that we all need to pay attention to women’s basketball and pretend like it’s the same as men playing basketball. Still, when it comes to wheelchair basketball, they talk about it condescendingly.

There are many great wheelchair basketball players out there, yet nobody wants to talk about them.

What is it about people? I understand if you are a woman and you have great skill on the basketball court and you want to showcase your talent, but we need to stop pretending that they are equal to men.

Wheelchair basketball players aren’t equal to non-disabled people, that’s true, but you can’t say when you have the best wheelchair basketball players in the world on one court that that’s not entertaining.

Sure, the disabled population is small, but let’s keep in mind that it doesn’t matter if you have a disability or not. We are all people, and we deserve to be treated as equals.

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