Delisha Milton-Jones
DeLisha Milton-Jones at the 2007
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| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
September 11, 1974 Riceboro, Georgia |
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | Bradwell Institute (Hinesville, Georgia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College | Florida (1993–1997) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 1999 / Round: Supplemental / Pick: 4th overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected by the Los Angeles Sparks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1999–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1999–2004 | Los Angeles Sparks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Washington Mystics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Los Angeles Sparks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | San Antonio Silver Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | New York Liberty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Atlanta Dream | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DeLisha Lachell Milton-Jones (born September 11, 1974), née DeLisha Lachell Milton, is an American professional basketball player who is a free agent. Milton-Jones played college basketball for the University of Florida. In her sixteen-season WNBA career, she has played for the Washington Mystics, the Los Angeles Sparks (twice), the San Antonio Stars, and the New York Liberty. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a two-time WNBA champion, and has been selected to the WNBA All-Star Game three times. As of the 2014 season, she is the oldest active player in the WNBA.
Milton-Jones was born in Riceboro, Georgia in 1974. According to a DNA analysis, she descended, mainly, from Yoruba people and Hausa people of Nigeria. She attended Bradwell Institute in Hinesville, Georgia, where she played high school basketball for the Bradwell Tigers. Milton-Jones graduated from Bradwell in 1993.
Milton-Jones accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Carol Ross's Florida Gators women's basketball team from 1993 to 1997. She was a four-year letterman, and led the Lady Gators to four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. As a senior in 1996–97, she was recognized as an All-American by the Associated Press, Kodak and the Basketball Times; she was also the winner of the Wade Trophy, recognizing the best women's basketball player in NCAA Division I.
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