The great basketball star Lusia Harris-Stewart, born inMinter City, Mississippi, was the first woman ever to be drafted into the NBA by the New Orleans Jazz in 1977. However, she declined the offer in hopes of starting afamily. Her accomplishments include holding every Delta State basketball record, shooting and making the first shot in the Olympics for women’s basketball, and being the first African American female college player inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 1992. Lusia Harris shows that it's not where you come from, but where you go.