Tina Thompson

Tina Marie Thompson (born February 10, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is a basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

She is a member of the Houston Comets dynasty that won four consecutive WNBA championships from 1997-2000. Selected as the overall #1 draft pick of the 1997 draft, Thompson is a four-time All-Star and the WNBA's second all-time leading scorer behind Lisa Leslie, her former teammate at USC. A member of the U.S squad that won gold in Athens, she has started in 232 games in her career. Thompson has been named to the All-WNBA First Team twice (1997, 1998).

She is currently expecting her first child, a baby boy with Miami Heat player Damon Jones, in May 2005.

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See also: Tina Thompson, 1975, Basketball, Biography, Damon Jones, February 10, Houston Comets, Lisa Leslie, Los Angeles, California