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Atlanta Dream's DeLisha Milton-Jones on Verge of Breaking WNBA Career Games Played Mark

August 27, 2015 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
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ATLANTA, August 27, 2015 - Atlanta Dream forward DeLisha Milton-Jones enters Friday's game at Indiana one game shy of eclipsing the WNBA career games-played record.

Milton-Jones is currently tied with Tina Thompson for the career mark at 496 and is set break the record on Friday, August 27 at Indiana (7 p.m./ET).

Milton-Jones is available for media opportunities locally and nationally. She is a 17-year WNBA veteran and is currently the oldest player active in the WNBA.

Her resume includes two WNBA titles (with Los Angeles in 2001, 2002); two-time All-Star selections (2000, 2007); she is one of six players all-time with over 5,000 points and 2,400 rebounds, ranks fourth all-time in WNBA history in steals, sixth in career rebounds and ninth in points.

In addition, Milton-Jones was a men's professional basketball coach in 2005 for the ABA's Los Angeles Stars. Given how this is a popular topic right now (with Becky Hammon and Nancy Lieberman recently hired as assistant coaches in the NBA), and as coaching is DeLisha's post-basketball goal, I thought this might be of some interest.

Milton-Jones has also worked as a color commentator for ESPN and served as a sideline reporter for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks last season.

She was a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Women's Basketball Team, but did not compete in Athens after suffering a knee injury just prior to the start of the competition.

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