How Would the WWE’s Ex-Hoopsters Fare Against WNBA All-Stars?

Jade Cargill played college basketball at Jacksonville University, so the show handed her a fun challenge: assemble a team of WWE women to win an exhibition hoops tournament. She did not hesitate, and the roster she built was loaded.

Cargill started with Lash Legend, who actually played in the WNBA, an obvious first pick. She added Nia Jax, who played basketball, then Bayley, who Cargill noted attended an All-Star game a couple of years back and left her wondering why she had not been invited herself. Counting herself made four, and she rounded it out with Bianca Belair, another former hooper.

Then she set the lineup like a coach who had thought about it before. Belair could run the point, Cargill said, or she would take that spot herself, with Lash Legend at forward and Nia Jax at center. The show called it a perfectly wrapped answer, and the kicker was that every name on the list could genuinely play.

Cargill broke down the credentials with real pride. By her count, she, Nia Jax, and Lash Legend played collegiately, while she and Legend were the only two who went pro, Legend to the WNBA and Cargill overseas. Asked who they would be playing, she barely cared. Whoever it is, the show joked, is taking an L anyway. Cargill's only request was that the actual All-Star game come holler at her.

She used the moment to make a larger point about the women of WWE. They arrive from every athletic background imaginable, volleyball players, gymnasts, basketball players, and prove they can do it all on the way to becoming superstars. As for the critics, the show offered an image of haters picking chips out of their beards while leaving ridiculous comments. Cargill made sure to credit the line to someone else before happily claiming it for herself.