{"id":363330,"date":"2025-12-23T07:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363330\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:27:17","slug":"basketball-legend-lisa-leslie-reacts-to-dunking-wnba-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363330\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Legend Lisa Leslie Reacts to Dunking WNBA Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Leslie is one of the best to ever play in the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/los-angeles-sparks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> legend achieved a lot during her legendary career, winning the championship twice and the regular-season MVP award three times.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie, who suited up for the Sparks from 1997 to 2009, is also an eight-time All-Star, two-time Defensive Player of the Year and a member of the league&#8217;s 10th, 15th, 20th and 25th Anniversary Teams. She is widely considered a top-10 WNBA player of all time, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/32210623\/wnba-greatest-players-all-ranking-25-best-league-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN ranking her at No. 5<\/a> on its list back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Leslie certainly knows greatness and talent when she sees it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Leslie is one of the best to ever play in the WNBA. The Los Angeles Sparks legend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-363330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}