- On View
- Sports Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Manufactured by
- Champion, American, founded 1919
- Worn by
- Leslie, Lisa Deshaun, American, born 1972
- Subject of
- Los Angeles Sparks, American, founded 1997
- Women’s National Basketball Association, American, founded 1996
- Date
- 1999
- Medium
- synthetic fiber with cotton
- Dimensions
- H x W: 32 × 17 in. (81.3 × 43.2 cm)
- Description
- A 1999 Lisa Leslie game worn WNBA Los Angeles Sparks jersey. The purple jersey has teal straps and a yellow trim. There is a black horizontal stripe (memorial band) on the proper left shoulder. The stripe starts on the yellow neckline and goes to the edge of the sleeve. There is a white [SPARKS] logo on the front, across the chest. The logo has a yellow outline and a white, yellow, and teal design coming out of the top of the [K]. There is a white number [9] with a yellow outline under the team’s name. A blue, white, and red WNBA logo is above the first letter [S] in [Sparks]. There are tags on the bottom of the jersey on the proper left side. The larger label is white, purple, teal, yellow, orange, and black. It reads [LOS ANGELES / SPARKS] and [DESIGNED & TAILORED BY / Champion / EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE / LOS ANGELES SPARKS / 1999]. There are four orange and white basketball illustrations, and there is a red, white, and blue WNBA logo. The second label is white with a red and blue Champion logo. The jersey is rounded at the bottom and goes up a bit higher on the two sides. The yellow side panels are mesh.
- The back of the jersey is teal on the top and reads [LESLIE] in white. The center of the back of the jersey is purple with a white number “9” with a yellow outline. The jersey has a few loose threads at the edges.
- Place depicted
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
- Clothing - Sports Uniforms
- Type
- jerseys
- sports uniforms
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2016.92.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Los Angeles Sparks
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




