{"id":903864,"date":"2026-09-21T08:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903864\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:14:26","slug":"wnba-legend-lisa-leslies-statue-unveiled-outside-of-sparks-arena-in-new-videos-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903864\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Legend Lisa Leslie&#8217;s Statue Unveiled Outside of Sparks&#8217; Arena in New Videos, Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Los Angeles Sparks officially unveiled a statue honoring WNBA legend Lisa Leslie outside of the Crypto.com Arena on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Here&#8217;s a look at the statue:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;First of all, she&#8217;s cute,&#8221; Leslie <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/49995487\/sparks-legend-lisa-leslie-statue-unveiled-star-plaza-cryptocom-arena\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> after seeing her statue for the first time. &#8220;I was so worried. I did not want to look like a linebacker up here. But she&#8217;s cute. I wanted to make sure that this statue was a perfect blend of fearlessness and the competitor that I was and I am and I&#8217;ll always be. But also&#8230; I wore my ribbons, I had my nails polished, which y&#8217;all can&#8217;t see, but the girl got her polish on because I never wanted the boys or the men to think that I was a boy. I wanted to play hard like them, but I wanted them to know that I respected myself and that I was a lady. And I wanted for little girls to see my ribbons when I played because I wanted them to be able to see themselves in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Leslie, 54, was a three-time WNBA MVP during her 12-year career, winning a pair of championships with the Sparks. She was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Sparks officially unveiled a statue honoring WNBA legend Lisa Leslie outside of the Crypto.com Arena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-903864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903864","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=903864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}