""It's like one of those moments where it's Christmas, and you're anticipating getting a gift and when the day finally is here, that feeling you can't even describe is rather euphoric and nostalgic all at the same time, and it brings a peace about you in a way that you can't explain.""
""I'm going to be cheesing from ear-to-ear. I'm probably going to be fighting back tears, because when I think about my time spent in the purple and gold man, it was riddled with so many hard days, but it taught me so much about being a winner, and that turned into being a champion two times over.""
""Milton-Jones played 17 years in the WNBA after being drafted fourth overall by the Sparks in 1999 and set the record for most games played in league history before that was broken by Sue Bird.""
DeLisha Milton-Jones will have her No. 8 jersey retired by the Sparks on July 28 during the league's 30th anniversary celebration. She played 11 years for the Sparks, winning back-to-back titles in 2001 and 2002. Milton-Jones expressed her emotions about the honor, describing it as euphoric and nostalgic. She is the fourth Sparks player to have her number retired, following Lisa Leslie, Penny Toler, and Candace Parker. Milton-Jones is now the head coach at Old Dominion and was inducted into the women's basketball Hall of Fame in 2022.
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