DeLisha Milton-Jones: Difference between revisions

| league = [[ConferenceSun USABelt Conference]]

| team = Old Dominion Lady Monarchs

| birth_place = [[Riceboro, Georgia]], U.S.

| career_position = [[Small forward]] / [[Power forward (basketball)|Powerpower forward]]

| cteam4 = [[Old Dominion Lady Monarchs women's basketball|Old Dominion]]

* First-team [[Women's Basketball Coaches Association|Kodak]] All-American]] (1997)

'''DeLisha Lachell Milton-Jones''' (born September 11, 1974) is an American retired professional [[basketball]] player and head coach of [[Old Dominion Lady Monarchs women's basketball|Old Dominion]]. Milton-Jones played [[college basketball]] for the [[University of Florida]]. She was a first-team [[All-American]] and [[SEC Player of the Year]] her senior season.

Milton-Jones began her professional career in 1997 with the [[Portland Power (basketball)|Portland Power]], who drafted her second overall in the [[American Basketball League (1996–1998)|American Basketball League]] (ABL). After the dissolution of the ABL in 1998, Milton-Jones entered into the [[1999 WNBA Draftdraft]] and was selected fourth overall by the [[Los Angeles Sparks]]. In her seventeen-season WNBA career, she has played for the Los Angeles Sparks (1999–2004, 2008–2012), the [[Washington Mystics]] (2005–07), the [[San Antonio Stars]] (2013), and the [[New York Liberty]] (2013–14).

Milton-Jones was born DeLisha Lachell Milton in [[Riceboro, Georgia]], in 1974. 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 represented the US at the 1997 World University Games held in [[Marsala|Marsala, Sicily]], [[Italy]], in August 1997. The USA team won all six games, earning the gold medal at the event. Milton-Jones averaged 10.3 points per game and recorded 14 steals, second highest on the team.<ref name="1997 WUG"/>

Milton-Jones was named to the U.S. national team in 1998. The national team traveled to [[Berlin, Germany]], in July and August 1998 for the FIBA World Championships. The U.S. team won a close opening game against Japan 95–89, then won their next six games easily. In the semifinal game against Brazil, the U.S. team was behind as much as ten points in the first half, but the U.S. team went on to win 93–79. The gold medal game was a rematch against Russia. In the first game, the Americans dominated almost from the beginning, but in the rematch, the Russian team took the early lead and led much of the way. With under two minutes remaining, the U.S. team was down by two points but the Americans responded, then held on to win the gold medal 71–65. Milton-Jones averaged 7.1 points per game.<ref name="1998 WC"/>

In 2016, Milton-Jones was released by the Dream.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/3f5246f91c9f461389a7b3ca02483394|title=Atlanta cuts 41-year-old Milton-Jones, WNBA's oldest player|website=AP NEWS|date=12 May 2016 }}</ref>

In 2003, she won the Euroleague Championship with team [[Ekaterinburg]] in [[Russia]]. In the 2005–06 season, she won the Euroleague with [[Gambrinus Brno]] of the [[Czech Republic]] and for the season 2006–07 she signed a two-year contract with Ros Casares Valencia of Spain. During the 2008–2009 WNBA off-season, Milton-Jones played for Ros Casares Valencia in Spain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/news/overseas_0809.html|title=WNBA.com: Offseason 2008-09: Overseas Roster|website=www.wnba.com}}</ref> for whom she also played during the 2007-08 off-season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/news/overseas_0708.html|title=WNBA.com: Offseason 2007-08: Overseas Roster|website=www.wnba.com}}</ref>

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| overall = {{Winning percentage|1381|1142|record=y}}

| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|743|927|record=y}}

|overall = {{Winning percentage|45113|4374|record=y}}

Milton-Jones appeared in the 2000 movie ''[[Love and Basketball]]'' as Delisha Milton. In 2003, Milton-Jones married Roland Jones.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://josephyoo.com/delisha-milton-jones-and-her-husband-and-moving-on-ad14cc4c4ff9|title=DeLisha Milton-Jones and Her Husband (And Moving On)}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

<ref name="1997 WUG">{{cite web|title=Eighteenth World University Games -- 1993|url=http://www.usab.com/history/world-university-games-womens/eighteenth-world-university-games-1997.aspx|publisher=USA Basketball|access-date=12 October 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150907193900/http://www.usab.com/history/world-university-games-womens/eighteenth-world-university-games-1997.aspx | archive-date =7 September 2015|url-status=livedead}}</ref>

<ref name="1998 WC">{{cite web|title=Thirteenth World Championship For Women -- 1998|date=June 10, 2010|url=http://www.usab.com/history/national-team-womens/thirteenth-world-championship-for-women-1998.aspx|publisher=USA Basketball|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905203810/http://www.usab.com/history/national-team-womens/thirteenth-world-championship-for-women-1998.aspx|archive-date=5 September 2015|url-status=livedead|access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref>

<ref name="WNBA record">{{cite web|title=DeLisha Milton-Jones plays in 497th WNBA game, setting record|url=httphttps://espnwww.goespn.com/wnba/story/_/id/13535637/delisha-milton-jones-atlanta-dream-breaks-wnba-record-games-played|website=ESPN|date=29 August 2015 |access-date=August 29, 2015}}</ref>

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