01 Apr, 2022
Lisa Leslie is a four-time Olympic gold medal winner, a two-time WNBA champion and the first woman to ever dunk in a WNBA game. The former Los Angeles Sparks player even has her own Nike sneaker, 1998’s Nike Total Air 9. She is also a real-estate agent, and now the co-founder of a sports and entertainment real-estate firm named Aston Rose. The firm is composed of a team of sports pros-turned-agents in Florida and California, and launched on March 17. The goal of the firm, Ms. Leslie says, is “connecting the dots for these athletes and entertainers, helping them understand what are some good investments and what are not, some pitfalls on things they should avoid, and figuring out how we can create general wealth.” “I’ve gone through it,” she says. “I am a pro athlete who experienced making money, and sometimes, especially in the African-American community, we [athletes] are the first earners of millions of dollars” in the family, said Ms. Leslie.