With Mark Cuban publicly saying he would consider drafting Brittney Griner, Shane Battier believes that there will be a female player in the NBA at some point in the future.

"There's no doubt that in our lifetime, there will be a woman NBA player," Battier said.

"I don't know if it's Griner or if it's someone who is 5 years old right now. But we'll see it. It'll happen in our lifetime. Just the law of averages."

Battier feels that special women would need to have a skill set similar to LeBron James.

"I don't think it would be out of the realm of possibility that [one day] we'll see a female LeBron," Battier said. "You could be the most skilled player in the world that the women's game has ever seen, but that won't cut it in the NBA. She'd have to be a physical specimen."