Trick or Treat: Players� Favorite Halloween Costumes

So you're probably thinking that just because they are professional athletes, all of them All-Stars to boot, they may not have or did not dress up and go trick-or-treating for Halloween when they were younger (some more recently than others)? Of course, that is not the case. In fact, many of their costume ideas are still timely, so if you are looking for suggestions or last-minute solutions, look no further.

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Sue Bird, Seattle Storm
"I had some good ones. I had a great Oscar the Grouch costume where I wore a garbage can."

Swin Cash, Detroit Shock
"Tina Turner. Remember the jean skirt and the jean jacket with a big wig."

Marie Ferdinand, San Antonio Silver Stars
"I wasn't really big on Halloween. My friends and I never really wore masks or dressed up or anything like that. We would wear all black or coordinate and wear the same color. But as a little, little kid, I was always a princess. Nothing too scary."

Cheryl Ford, Detroit Shock
"We couldn't afford costumes, so we'd have the garbage bags and put holes in them and pretend to be ghosts."

Have a little fun this Halloween. Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE/Getty Images

Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm
"A witch. I used to love wigs, so I put a black wig on. I had this skirt that my grandmother had actually made for my mom years ago because she was a dressmaker. It was a long black velvet thing with - I looked like the best witch in the world."

Lisa Leslie, Los Angeles Sparks
"I was a jack-in-the-box. I won a competition when I was a kid. I had a white face, painted a clown's face and had a cardboard box with paper around it. It had a wind on it, so I'd walk around and duck down in the box and then pop out."

Taj McWilliams-Franklin, Connecticut Sun
"Scooby Doo, unfortunately. I was old enough to know better. I'll just say I was in double-digits. Last year, my daughter dressed up as Dora, a little cat Dora and I went as a basketball player. Amazingly, I played the role kind of shabbily. I did dress up� The things we do for kids."

Ruth Riley, Detroit Shock
"I switched it up every year. I couldn't remember a single one of them, either."

Nykesha Sales, Connecticut Sun
"I was always a bum (laughter). I was always a bum because I didn't have to buy a costume. Me and my brother, we couldn't really afford costumes, you know, so we would just put mud and gook all over our face, have on one mitten, a hat, ripped socks, just our old clothes. We'd take a pillowcase and go out and trick-or-treat. So, I think a couple years I was a bum."

Michelle Snow, Houston Comets
"Being 6-4 in the ninth grade made it kind of hard to trick-or-treat. I used to just dress up as a basketball player. I was 6-4 (laughter)!"

Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Mercury
"I was a hobo for four years straight."

DeMya Walker, Sacramento Monarchs
"Punk rocker. I was also Gem. (now singing...) 'Gem is truly outrageous, truly, truly truly outrageous.' I was Gem with pink hair and everything."