In her first season in Los Angeles, Betty Lennox brings nine years of WNBA experience to a team thriving with talent. The 5’8 guard was the sixth overall pick by the Minnesota Lynx in the 2000 WNBA Draft and was named 2000 Rookie of the Year and an All-Star. In 2004, Lennox helped to lead the Seattle Storm to the WNBA Championship and received the Finals MVP award.

Betty “B-Money” Lennox is coming off the most productive season in her career. She averaged 17.5 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.3 steals per game in 34 outings with the Atlanta Dream in 2008.

Born in Hugo, Okla., Lennox is the eighth of nine children. She had five older brothers who spent their free time playing basketball when they weren't working hard on the farm. Lennox started loading bales when she was 10. A bale weighs 30 to 40 pounds. 20 bales on a truck would equal 80 cents for Lennox’s family. A few thousand loaded from sunrise to sundown and that four cents per bale actually turned into paper money. It was that money that put food on the table for the family.

Lennox spent her first two college seasons playing for Trinity Valley Community College in Texas and was part of the Tigers’ 1998 Junior College National Championship. She transferred to Louisiana Tech, and in her senior season was named the 2000 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year and a U.S. Basketball Writers Association First Team All-American.

In 2005, Lennox started the Lennox Foundation 22 to support kids in all communities that battle with the horrors of neglect and abuse. It strives to give them the opportunity to experience life in a different way; by giving them support, love, education, and self-motivation through basketball. Lennox won the WNBA’s Community Assist Award in June 2006 for making a difference in the community.

• 2000 WNBA Rookie of the Year
• 2000 All-WNBA Second Team and WNBA All-Star
• 2004 WNBA Finals MVP
• Led the Eastern Conference in 2008 with 17.5 points per game

• Reached 3,000 point and 1,000 rebound milestones
• Led the Eastern Conference in points per game (17.5)
• Fourth in the league in total points (595)
• Averaged 4.2 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.3 steals per game

• Fourteenth in the league in points per game (13.4)
• Third in free-throw percentage (90.9%)
• Averaged 4.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.1 steals per game

• Reached 2,000 point milestone
• Grabbed her 200th steal vs. the Sparks on 6/28/06
• Fifteenth in the league in points per game (13.7)
• Averaged 4 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.1 steals in 34 games

• Hit 200th career three-pointer vs. NY on 7/19/05
• Averaged 12.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.25 steals per game.
• Missed six games with a left wrist injury

• 2004 WNBA Finals MVP
• Averaged 11.2 points, 5 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 32 for Seattle

• Averaged 7.6 points and 2.6 rebounds, and 16.5 minutes per game for the Cleveland Rockers

• Traded to Miami Sol 5 games into 2002 season
• Hit 46 three-point field goals
• Averaged 11.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game for the Sol

• Missed 20 games with a hip injury
• Averaged 11 points and 4.9 rebounds in 11 games

• WNBA Rookie of the Year
• All-WNBA Second Team and WNBA All-Star
• Tenth in the league in points per game (16.9) and ninth in total points (541)
• Led the Lynx in rebounds (5.6) and steals (1.66) per game
• Hit 55 three-pointers and finished fifth in three-point percentage (39.6%)