In 2001 Lisa Leslie was the first WNBA player to win the regular season MVP the All-Star Game MVP and the playoff MVP in the same season. In 2002 she was the WNBA all time leading scorer and was named MVP of the WNBA Championship. She was a member of the gold-winning U.S. Olympic teams in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. She retired from the WNBA in 2009.In 2009. Since her retirement, she has worked as a sports commentator and analyst for channels ABC, NBC and Fox Sports. Leslie returned to her Sparks team in 2011. She is now one of the team’s owners and has also decided to share her knowledge and skills with others through the LisaLeslie Basketball & Leadership Academy.Lisa Leslie is married to Michael Lockwood. They have two children Michael Joseph and Lauren Jolie. Lisa got a contract with the WNBA in 1997 becoming one of the new league’s first players. She joined the Los Angeles Sparks and had an awesome career with the team. In 2001, she was the first WNBA player to win the regular season MVP, the All-Star Game MVP and the playoff MVP in the same season. She also led the Los Angeles Sparks to two back-to-back WNBA Championships—in 2001 and 2002. Also her amazing performance with the Sparks she returned to Olympic competition three more times. She helped the U.S. team win gold in 2000 and in 2004.She got two more WNBA MVP honors in 2004 and 2006. She sat out of the 2007 WNBA season because she was pregnant with her first child but she wasn’t done with basketball. Lisa returned to the court in 2008. She also earned her fourth and final gold medal in women’s basketball that summer at the Olympics in Beijing, China. In 2009, she said that she was retiring from professional basketball. She scored more than 6,200 points during her twelve years with the WNBA. She also holds the record of being the first woman in the league to make a slam dunk during a real game. In her final year at University of Southern California, She was named the 1994 National Player of the Year. She made her first trip to the Olympics in 1996 held in Atlanta, Georgia.Don Voaklander via Compfight
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