Iciss Tillis is an American

United States

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 professional women's basketball

Basketball

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 player. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...

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High school

Tillis played for Cascia Prep School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she was named a WBCA

Women's Basketball Coaches Association

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 All-American. She participated in the 2000 WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored five points.

Tillis is the daughter of former Heavyweight boxer James Tillis. James Tillis fought for the Heavyweight championship once and was the first professional boxer to fight Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...

 to a decision.

College and professional

Tillis has played in the WNBA with the Detroit Shock

Detroit Shock

The Detroit Shock was a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. They were the 2003, 2006 and 2008 WNBA champion...

, New York Liberty

New York Liberty

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, and Los Angeles Sparks

Los Angeles Sparks

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, appearing in 66 games. She played collegiately for Duke University

Duke Blue Devils

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, where she was named an All-America

All-America

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 in 2003 and on the All-ACC

Atlantic Coast Conference

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 first team from 2002 to 2004. Tillis has also played professionally in Europe. A scandal erupted in France

France

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, where Tarbes Gespe Bigorre

Tarbes Gespe Bigorre

Tarbes Gespe Bigorre is a French basketball club, taking part to the professional French league for women, the LFB, and to European Cups ....

 attempted to sign Tillis to replace injured star Isabelle Yacoubou despite being over the eligible limit of non-European players imposed by the Ligue Féminine de Basketball

Ligue Féminine de Basketball

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. Tarbes was forced to sell Tillis to TTT Riga

TTT Riga

TTT Rīga is the name of a professional women's basketball club based in Riga, Latvia. "TTT" means Tram and Trolley Trust.-History:TTT women's basketball team was founded in 1958. The team was to arrive by tram and trolley under the auspices of a trust. The first TTT Riga game was played on November...

 in Riga

Riga

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, Latvia

Latvia

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, where she made the Euroleague's

EuroLeague Women

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all-star team in 2008.