Retirement Beckons for Lisa Leslie, Women's Basketball Biggest Star

by Michelle Smith

Filed under: WNBA

It's hard to imagine the WNBA, or women's basketball really, without Lisa Leslie.

She was one of the three Olympians (along with Sheryl Swoopes and Rebecca Lobo) who stood in front of the new league's logo back in 1996 when almost everybody else was joining the American Basketball League.

She was the one who missed a dunk in the league's inaugural game in 1997 and the first one to dunk in a game in 2003.

She is the league's all-time leading scorer and rebounder. She's been the league MVP three times. She owns the league record for Player of the Week awards with 14.

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