Lusia Harris was a basketball pioneer and the only woman ever drafted by the NBA.Harris played high school basketball before joining the newly established women’s team at Delta State University in 1973.
She was a standout on a team that won three consecutive national championships. While she was in college, Harris was selected for the U.S.
team, which won gold at the 1975 Pan American Games. The team went to the Summer Olympics the following year, the first time women’s basketball was included in the Olympics.
Harris scored the first ever points in women’s Olympic basketball, and her team won silver.After Harris’ 1977 college graduation, she was selected by the New Orleans Jazz, the first and only woman ever drafted by an NBA team.
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