Lisa Leslie is an American former professional basketball player. She is the head coach for Triplets in the BIG3 professional basketball league, as well as a studio analyst for Orlando Magic broadcasts on Fox Sports Florida.
Leslie played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner. The number-seven pick in the 1997 inaugural WNBA draft, she followed her career at the University of Southern California with eight WNBA All-Star selections and two WNBA championships over the course of eleven seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks, before retiring in 2009. Leslie was the first player to dunk in a WNBA game.
In 2015, she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Leslie was also inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
Became the first WNBA player to dunk in a game on July 30, 2002.
Member of the Olympic gold-medal-winning USA women's basketball teams in 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008.
Leslie and Lockwood, a pilot and former Air Force basketball player,
wed in Maui in November 2005.
Named MVP of the 2002 All Star Game.
At age 34, gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Lauren Jolie was
born June 15, 2007. Lauren made her debut over a week early arriving at
4:05 or 4:11 am, weighing in at 8 lbs. 11 oz and 20 inches long.