{"id":35700,"date":"2015-01-29T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=35700"},"modified":"2015-01-30T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T23:17:58","slug":"leslie-lisa-basketball-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/leslie-lisa-basketball-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie, Lisa (Basketball Player)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a class=\"postlink-local\" href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/african-american\/\">More Information On African Americans<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/leslie_lisa_2_300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-35753 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/leslie_lisa_2_300x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"leslie_lisa_2_300x300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/leslie_lisa_2_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/leslie_lisa_2_300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/leslie_lisa_2_300x300-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood (born July 7, 1972) is a former American professional women&#8217;s basketball player who played in the 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 a superb career at the University of Southern California with seven WNBA All-Star appearances and two WNBA championships over the course of eleven seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks, before retiring in 2009. Leslie, a 6&#8217;5&#8243; center, is the first player to dunk in a WNBA game. She was considered a pioneer and cornerstone of the league during her WNBA career. In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is the daughter of Christine Lauren Leslie, who started her own truck driving business to support her three children, and Walter Leslie, a semiprofessional basketball player. Walter left the family when her mother was four months pregnant with her. Lisa&#8217;s mother stood 6 ft 5 in. Leslie has two sisters: Dionne, who is five years older, and Tiffany, who is eight years younger. Lisa played basketball on an all boy basketball team in middle school. She also played on an all-girls team with the record 33-1.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisa_Leslie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click Here For More Information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Information On African Americans) Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood (born July 7, 1972) is a former American professional women&#8217;s basketball player who played in the 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 a superb career at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":35753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-history-math-science-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}