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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1970)}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Yolanda Griffith
| image = Griffith Yolanda Headshot.jpg
| team = 
| position = [[Center (basketball)|Center]]
| height_ft = 6 | height_in = 3
| weight_lbs = 188
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|03|1}}
| birth_place = [[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S.
| high_school = [[Carver Military Academy|Carver]] (Chicago, Illinois)
| college = 
*[[Palm Beach Community College|Palm Beach CC]] (1990–1992)
*[[Florida Atlantic Owls women's basketball|Florida Atlantic]] (1992–1993)
| draft_league = WNBA
| draft_year = 1999
| draft_round = 1
| draft_pick = 2
| draft_team = [[Sacramento Monarchs]]
| career_start = 1993
| career_end = 2009
| career_number = 33, 13
| years1 = 1993–1997
| team1 = DJK Wildcats Aschaffenburg
| years2 = 1997–1998
| team2 = [[Long Beach Stingrays]]
| years3 = 1998
| team3 = [[Chicago Condors]]
| years4 = [[1999 WNBA season|1999]]–[[2007 WNBA season|2007]]
| team4 = [[Sacramento Monarchs]]
| years5 = 2000–2002
| team5 = [[Lavezzini Basket Parma]]
| years6 = 2003–2006
| team6 = [[UMMC Ekaterinburg]]
| years7 = [[2008 WNBA season|2008]]
| team7 = [[Seattle Storm]]
| years8 = [[2009 WNBA season|2009]]
| team8 = [[Indiana Fever]]
| highlights = 
* [[List of WNBA champions|WNBA champion]] ({{WNBA Year|2005}})
* [[WNBA Finals MVP]] ({{WNBA Year|2005}})
* [[WNBA MVP]] ({{WNBA Year|1999}})
* 8× [[WNBA All-Star Game|WNBA All-Star]] ([[1999 WNBA All-Star Game|1999]]–[[2001 WNBA All-Star Game|2001]], [[2003 WNBA All-Star Game|2003]]–[[2007 WNBA All-Star Game|2007]])
* 2× [[All-WNBA Team|All-WNBA First Team]] ({{WNBA Year|1999}}, {{WNBA Year|2005}})
* 3× [[All-WNBA Team|All-WNBA Second Team]] ({{WNBA Year|2000}}, {{WNBA Year|2001}}, {{WNBA Year|2004}})
* 2× [[List of Women's National Basketball Association season rebounding leaders|WNBA rebounding champion]] ({{WNBA Year|1999}}, {{WNBA Year|2001}})
* 2× [[List of Women's National Basketball Association annual steals leaders|WNBA steals champion]] ({{WNBA Year|1999}}, {{WNBA Year|2004}})
* [[WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award|WNBA Defensive Player of the Year]] ({{WNBA Year|1999}})
* 2× [[WNBA All-Defensive Team]] ({{WNBA Year|2005}}, {{WNBA Year|2006}})
* [[WNBA All-Decade Team|WNBA 10th Anniversary Team]] (2006)
* [[WNBA's Top 15 Players of All Time|WNBA 15th Anniversary Team]] (2011)
* [[WNBA Top 20@20|WNBA 20th Anniversary Team]] (2016)
* [[The W25|WNBA 25th Anniversary Team]] (2021)
* [[Russian Gold Basket awards|Russian League Player of the Year]] (2005)
* First-team ''[[Parade Magazine|Parade]]'' All-American (1989)
| medal_templates =
{{MedalSport|Women's [[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|basketball]]}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalGold|[[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]]|[[Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics|National team]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]] | [[Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics|National team]]}}
| HOF_player = Yolanda-Griffith
| womensHOF = yolanda-evette-griffith
| wnba_profile = yolanda_griffith
}}
'''Yolanda Evette Griffith''' (born March 1, 1970) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player who played in both the [[American Basketball League (1996–1998)|ABL]] and [[WNBA]]. An eight time WNBA All-Star, she was named the 1999 [[WNBA MVP]] and the [[WNBA Finals MVP]] in 2005 when she won the WNBA championship with the [[Sacramento Monarchs]]. One of the top defensive players in WNBA's history, she was the 1999 [[WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award|WNBA Defensive Player of the Year]] and led the league in rebounds and steals two times each. In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the top 15 players in WNBA history. She is sometimes called by her nicknames: "Yo" and "Yo-Yo". Griffith was inducted into the 2014 [[Women's Basketball Hall of Fame]]'s class on her first year of eligibility. In 2021, she was inducted into the [[Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame]].

==Early life==
Born in [[Chicago]], Illinois, Griffith attended [[Carver Military Academy|George Washington Carver High School]] in the Chicago area.<ref name="porter"/> In her senior year (1988–1989), she was named First-team ''[[Parade Magazine|Parade]]'' All-American,<ref>{{cite news |author1=Chuck Otterson |title=PBCC women: Tall expectations |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-palm-beach-post-pbcc-women-tall-exp/133938343/ |access-date=23 October 2023 |work=[[The Palm Beach Post]] |date=5 November 1989 |page=2C |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{open access}}</ref> as well as first team All-America in softball.<ref name="porter"/>

==College career==
Griffith was offered a [[scholarship]] to play for the women's basketball team at the [[University of Iowa]], but had to cancel it after she gave birth to her daughter, Candace.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Mechelle Voepel |title=Griffith finds success on road less traveled |url=https://www.espn.com/wnba/columns/story?id=1851827 |access-date=23 October 2023 |work=[[ESPN]] |date=4 August 2004}}</ref>

Afterward, she attended [[Palm Beach Junior College]] in [[Lake Worth, Florida]], where she earned Junior College All-America honors in 1990–91.<ref name="porter"/>  She later transferred to [[Florida Atlantic University]], which was then a [[NCAA Division II|Division II]] school, where she graduated in 1993, earning Kodak Division II Player of the Year honors.<ref name="porter"/> While in school, she supported herself and her daughter by working for a car repossession company.<ref name="porter"/>

==Professional career==
===Germany===
Following her graduating from college, Griffith began her professional basketball playing career in [[Germany]] with DJK Wildcats Aschaffenburg, where she played from 1993 to 1997.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} In 1997, she finished as the top scorer and rebounder in the [[Euroleague Women]], averaging 24.7 points and 17.1 rebounds per game.<ref>{{cite web |title=EuroLeague Women (1997) &#124; FIBA Europe |url=https://www.fibaeurope.com/cid_KNce8jInH7Qj1EsyH5rjn2.season_1997.compID_jr6ZiXqeGhMBtfq1yxqV83.html |website=fibaeurope.com |publisher=[[FIBA Europe]] |access-date=23 October 2023}}</ref>

=== American Basketball League ===
After four seasons in Germany, Griffith joined the [[American Basketball League 1996-98|American Basketball League]] (ABL).<ref name="porter"/> She was selected by the [[Long Beach Stingrays]] as the number one pick overall in the ABL players draft.<ref name="porter"/> In their only season, Griffith led the Stingrays to the brink of the ABL title, only to lose to the defending champions, the [[Columbus Quest]]. Griffith was named the 1997–1998 ABL Defensive Player of the Year and to the All-ABL first team.<ref name="porter"/> She finished second in the ABL's 1998 Most Valuable Player voting to her future [[2000 Summer Olympics]] teammate [[Natalie Williams]].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

When the Long Beach franchise folded after the end of the 1997–98 season, she was dealt to the expansion [[Chicago Condors]], in her hometown. She played there only briefly, however, as the league folded on December 22, 1998. Prior to that, Griffith ranked fifth among league leaders in scoring (17.2 ppg), first in rebounding (12.3 rpg), 19th in assists (2.6 apg), second in steals (3.3 spg), and second in blocked shots (1.3 bpg).{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

===WNBA===
The [[Sacramento Monarchs]] selected Griffith No. 2 overall in the 1999 [[WNBA draft]].<ref name="porter"/> She is a seven-time [[WNBA All-Star Game|WNBA All-Star]], and won the WNBA's [[WNBA Most Valuable Player Award|MVP]], Newcomer of the Year<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/features/ambassadors_griffith.html|title=WNBA.com: Ambassadors of the Game: Yolanda Griffith|website=www.wnba.com|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref> and [[WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award|Defensive Player]] awards in 1999.

In 2001, Griffith set the WNBA single-season record for most offensive rebounds with 162.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

In 2005, the Monarchs won their first [[WNBA Finals|WNBA title]] over the [[Connecticut Sun]], three games to one in a best-of-five series. Griffith was named Finals MVP.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

On April 8, 2008, after nine seasons with the [[Sacramento Monarchs]], Griffith signed with the [[Seattle Storm]].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

On February 20, 2009, Griffith signed with the [[Indiana Fever]], after a one-year stint with the Storm.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

On June 9, 2009, Griffith tore her [[achilles tendon]] in a game against the [[Seattle Storm]], her former team. In August the same year, she announced her retirement from professional basketball.<ref>{{cite news |title=Griffith ending career after 11 seasons |url=https://www.espn.com/wnba/news/story?id=4376955 |access-date=23 October 2023 |work=[[ESPN]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=4 August 2009}}</ref><ref name="WNBA"/> In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the top 15 players in the fifteen-year history of the WNBA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/allstar/2011/top15_072311.html|title=WNBA.com: AllStar 2011|website=www.wnba.com|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref> In 2016, Griffith was once again honoured by the WNBA in the [[WNBA Top 20@20]] in celebration of the league's 20th season.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Mechelle Voepel |title=Maya Moore, Candace Parker, Lisa Leslie among WNBA's 20@20 |url=https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/16390947/wnba-selected-20-greatest-players-celebrate-20th-year |access-date=23 October 2023 |work=[[ESPN]] |date=21 June 2016}}</ref>

===Europe===
As the WNBA and the seasons in Europe did not overlap, Griffith, like many other WNBA players played in Europe during the winter. She played two seasons for Lavezzini Basket Parma in Italy from 2000 to 2002. In 2003–2004 and 2005–2006, she played for Russian club [[UMMC Ekaterinburg]].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

==Coaching career==
Griffith began her coaching career in 2009 as an assistant coach with the Indiana Fever. She was later an assistant coach at the college level with Dartmouth, Lafayette, Albany and the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]. In 2018, she became an assistant coach with the Boston College Eagles.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

==Statistics==
===WNBA career statistics===
{{WNBA player statistics legend}}

====Regular season====
{{WNBA player statistics start}}
|-
| align="left" | [[1999 WNBA season|1999]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 29 || 29 || 33.8 || '''.541''' || .000 || .617 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|'''11.3'''° || 1.6 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|2.5° || '''1.9''' || 2.28 || '''18.8'''
|-
| align="left" | [[2000 WNBA season|2000]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 32 || 32 || 32.1 || .535 || .000 || .706 || 10.3 || 1.5 || '''2.6''' || '''1.9''' || 2.56 || 16.3
|-
| align="left" | [[2001 WNBA season|2001]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 32 || 31 || 33.7 || .522 || .000 || .720 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|11.2° || '''1.7''' || 2.0 || 1.2 || 2.34 || 16.2
|-
| align="left" | [[2002 WNBA season|2002]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 17 || 17 || '''33.9''' || .520 || .000 || .803 || 8.7 || 1.1 || 0.9 || 0.8 || 2.65 || 16.9
|-
| align="left" | [[2003 WNBA season|2003]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| '''34''' || '''34''' || 29.9 || .485 || .000 || .774 || 7.3 || 1.4 || 1.7 || 1.1 || 2.21 || 13.8
|-
| align="left" | [[2004 WNBA season|2004]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| '''34''' || '''34''' || 30.3 || .519 || .000 || '''.853''' || 7.2 || 1.2 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|2.2° || 1.2 || 1.74 || 14.5
|-
|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|  [[2005 WNBA season|2005]]<sup>†</sup>
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| '''34''' || 33 || 28.3 || .485 || .000 || .707 || 6.6 || 1.5 || 1.2 || 0.9 || 2.00 || 13.8
|-
| align="left" | [[2006 WNBA season|2006]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| '''34''' || '''34''' || 25.1 || .457 || .000 || .751 || 6.4 || 1.6 || 1.3 || 0.5 || 1.94 || 12.0
|-
| align="left" | [[2007 WNBA season|2007]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 32 || 32 || 23.1 || .502 || .000 || .658 || 4.6 || 1.5 || 1.0 || 0.4 || 2.03 || 9.0
|-
| align="left" | [[2008 WNBA season|2008]]
| align="left" | [[Seattle Storm|Seattle]]
| 30 || 30 || 21.9 || .462 || .000 || .648 || 6.3 || 1.5 || 1.4 || 0.6 || 1.70 || 7.2
|-
| align="left" | [[2009 WNBA season|2009]]
| align="left" | [[Indiana Fever|Indiana]]
| 3 || 0 || 13.7 || .500 || .000 || .778 || 2.3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.7 || '''1.00''' || 6.3
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" |11 years, 3 teams
| 311 || 306 || 28.8 || .506 || .000 || .713 || 7.9 || 1.5 || 1.7 || 1.0 || 2.11 || 13.6
{{S-end}}

====Postseason====
{{WNBA player statistics start}}
|-
| align="left" | [[WNBA Playoffs#2000 season|2000]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 2 || 2 || '''39.0''' || .522 || .000 || .625 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|'''12.0'''° || 1.0 || 0.5 || 0.5 || 2.00 || 14.5
|-
| align="left" | [[WNBA Playoffs#2001 season|2001]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 5 || 5 || 36.2 || .478 || .000 || .764 || 8.8 || 1.4 || 1.6 || 1.2 || 2.20 || '''21.2'''
|-
| align="left" | [[WNBA Playoffs#2003 season|2003]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 6 || 6 || 33.3 || '''.537''' || .000 || '''.912''' || 8.8 || 1.2 || 1.2 || 1.0 || 2.00 || 17.2
|-
| align="left" | [[WNBA Playoffs#2004 season|2004]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 6 || 6 || 34.0 || .492 || .000 || .833 || 8.2 || 1.3 || 2.0 || 1.0 || 2.00 || 13.7
|-
|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| [[WNBA Playoffs#2005 season|2005]]<sup>†</sup>
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 8 || 8 || 30.8 || .491 || .000 || .711 || 8.3 || 1.4 || 1.2 || 0.5 || 1.25 || 17.3
|-
| align="left" | [[2006 WNBA Playoffs|2006]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| '''9''' || '''9''' || 26.3 || .485 || .000 || .765 || 7.1 || '''1.8''' || 1.1 || 0.6 || '''1.11''' || 14.8
|-
| align="left" | [[2007 WNBA Playoffs|2007]]
| align="left" | [[Sacramento Monarchs|Sacramento]]
| 3 || 3 || 23.7 || .409 || .000 || .889 || 6.0 || 0.3 || 0.7 || 0.3 || 2.33 || 8.7
|-
| align="left" | [[2008 WNBA Playoffs|2008]]
| align="left" | [[Seattle Storm|Seattle]]
| 3 || 3 || 29.0 || .214 || .000 || .875 || 6.3 || 1.7 || '''3.0''' || '''1.3''' || 1.67 || 4.3
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" |8 years, 2 teams
| 42 || 42 || 31.1 || .484 || .000 || .786 || 8.0 || 1.4 || 1.4 || 0.8 || 1.69 || 15.0
{{s-end}}

== National team career ==
Griffith has twice been a member of the [[USA Basketball|U.S. National Women's Basketball]] team. She won [[Gold Medal]]s at the [[Summer Olympics]] in both [[Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000]] and [[Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Yolanda Griffith, Lin Dunn inducted |url=https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/11086479/yolanda-griffith-lin-dunn-1976-us-olympic-team-inducted-women-basketball-hall-fame |access-date=23 October 2023 |work=[[ESPN]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=15 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="2000 Olympics"/><ref name="2004 Olympics"/>
Griffith will serve as a member of the USA Basketball Women's Development National Team Committee from 2013 to 2016.  The Women's Developmental National Team committees will select coaches and athletes for USA Basketball teams competing in the 2013 and 2015 FIBA Americas U16 Championships; and the 2014 and 2016 FIBA U17 World Championships. The Men's Developmental National Team Committee also selects staff and players for the annual Nike Hoop Summit.<ref name="USABasketball">{{cite web|url=http://www.usab.com/mens/13-16_committees.html?ATCLID=206556677&SPSID=48795&SPID=4704&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=11600|title=USA Basketball Announces 2013-16 Competition Committees|access-date=November 9, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109182002/http://www.usab.com/mens/13-16_committees.html?ATCLID=206556677&SPSID=48795&SPID=4704&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=11600|archive-date=November 9, 2013}}</ref>

== Coaching career ==
[[File:Griffith Yolanda Action.jpg|thumb|Yolanda Griffith coaching from the sidelines]]
In 2011, Griffith accepted an assistant coach position with [[Ivy League]] university, [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]], located in [[Hanover, New Hampshire|Hanover, NH]].<ref name=dartmouthsports/> In her first season with the Big Green the [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] post players made great strides. Griffith was instrumental in the development of Arianne Hunter and Tia Dawson. Dawson, who was the Big Green's top rebounder and the top shot blocker in the [[Ivy League]], was twice named [[Ivy League]] Rookie of the Week.<ref name="dartmouth">{{cite web|url=http://now.dartmouth.edu/2011/09/dartmouth-endowment-yields-18-4-return-in-fiscal-2011/|title=Dartmouth Endowment Yields 18.4% Return in Fiscal 2011|access-date=September 28, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007143839/http://now.dartmouth.edu/2011/09/dartmouth-endowment-yields-18-4-return-in-fiscal-2011/|archive-date=October 7, 2011}}</ref>
In 2013, Griffith was named the First Assistant Coach for [[Lafayette College]] a member of the [[Patriot League]].<ref name="lafayette">{{cite web|url=http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/lafayette/index.ssf/2013/06/wnba_olympic_standout_yolanda.html|title= WNBA, Olympic standout Yolanda Griffith named top assistant for Lafayette women's basketball program|date= 29 June 2013|access-date=November 9, 2013}}</ref> She was an assistant coach for Joanna Bernabei-MacNamee at the University of Albany. When Bernabei-MacNamee was named as the new head coach at Boston College in 2018, she brought Griffith along as her assistant. Griffith has been instrumental in the development of post players at BC.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

==Notes==
{{reflist|2|refs=

<ref name=dartmouthsports>[http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=205272896 YOLANDA GRIFFITH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426193915/http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=205272896 |date=2013-04-26 }} Dartmouth Big Green</ref>

<ref name="porter">Porter pp. 178–179.</ref>

<ref name="WNBA">{{cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/fever/news/griffith_090610.html|title=FEVER: TORN ACHILLES TENDON ENDS GRIFFITHS SEASON|website=www.wnba.com|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="2000 Olympics">{{cite web|url=http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=woly_2000|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120424205816/http://www.usabasketball.com/womens/national/woly_2000.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 April 2012|title=Games of the XXVIIth Olympiad -- 2000|publisher=USA Basketball|access-date=4 June 2010}}</ref>

<ref name="2004 Olympics">{{cite web|url=http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=woly_2004|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209035531/http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=woly_2004|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 December 2012|title=Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad -- 2004|publisher=USA Basketball|access-date=4 June 2010}}</ref>

}}

==References==
* {{cite book|title=Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary|editor=David L. Porter|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2005|isbn=978-0-313-30952-6}}

==External links==
{{Commons}}
* {{Basketballstats|wnba=yolanda-griffith}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050305095746/http://www.usabasketball.com/bioswomen/yolanda_griffith_bio.html USA Basketball Player Profile]
* [http://www.wnba.com/features/ambassadors_griffith.html 2004 WNBA article: "Ambassadors Of The Game"]
* [http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/sports/basketball/wnba/story/2741896p-11324015c.html October 14, 2005 ''Sacramento Bee'' article: "Monarchs' Griffith finally has a legacy"]{{dead link|date=October 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080412022315/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/storm/2004333965_storm08.html Griffith signs with the Storm]

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