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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1979)}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Nikki Teasley
| image = 
| position = [[Point guard]]
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 0
| weight_lbs = 169
| team = 
| number = 42
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|3|22}}
| birth_place = [[Washington D.C.]], U.S.
| high_school = [[Saint John's Catholic Prep (Maryland)|Saint John's Catholic Prep]]<br/>([[Buckeystown, Maryland]])
| college = [[North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball|North Carolina]] (1997–2002)
| draft_league = WNBA
| draft_year = 2002
| draft_round = 1
| draft_pick = 5
| draft_team = [[Portland Fire]]
| career_start = 2002
| career_end = 2009
| years1 = 2002–2005
| team1 = [[Los Angeles Sparks]]
| years2 = 2006–2007
| team2 = [[Washington Mystics]]
| years3 = 2008–2009
| team3 = [[Atlanta Dream]]
| years4 = 2009
| team4 = [[Detroit Shock]]
| highlights = * [[List of WNBA champions|WNBA champion]] ([[2002 WNBA Finals|2002]])
* [[WNBA All-Star Game|WNBA All-Star]] ([[2003 WNBA All-Star Game|2003]])
* [[WNBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award|WNBA All-Star game MVP]] ([[2003 WNBA All-Star Game|2003]])
* 2× [[All-WNBA Team|All-WNBA Second Team]] (2003–2004)
* 2× [[List of Women's National Basketball Association season assists leaders|WNBA assists leader]] (2004, 2006)
* First-team All-[[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]] (2002)
* [[ACC women's basketball tournament|ACC Tournament MVP]] (2000)
* [[Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball Rookie of the Year| ACC Rookie of the Year]]   (1998)
* ACC All-Freshman Team (1998)
* [[Gatorade Player of the Year awards|Gatorade National Player of the Year]] (1997)
| wnba_profile = nikki_teasley
| medal_templates = {{MedalSport|Women's basketball}}
{{MedalCountry|{{bkw|USA}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup|FIBA Under-19 World Cup]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1997 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women|1997 Brazil]]|Team Competition}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIBA Under-18 Women's Americas Championship|FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship]]}}
{{MedalSilver|1996 Mexico|[[United States women's national under-19 basketball team|Team]]}}
}}

'''Nikki Teasley''' (born March 22, 1979) is a former American [[basketball]] player in the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wnba.com/player/nikki-teasley/|title=Nikki Teasley – WNBA.com – Official Site of the WNBA|work=WNBA.com – Official Site of the WNBA|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en-US}}</ref>

Born in [[Washington, D.C.]], she played [[college basketball]] at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]].

In the [[2002 WNBA draft]], Teasley was selected as the #5 overall pick by the [[Portland Fire]].  But shortly afterwards, she was traded with [[Sophia Witherspoon]] to the [[Los Angeles Sparks]] for [[Ukari Figgs]] and second-round pick Gergana Slavtcheva.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-20-sp-wnbadraft20-story.html|title=Sparks' Trade Is Talk of the Draft|last=TERRY|first=MIKE|date=2002-04-20|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref>

Teasley helped the Sparks win their second consecutive title by hitting a series-winning three-pointer in the final seconds.

On March 24, 2008, Teasley was waived by the [[Washington Mystics]].

The [[Atlanta Dream]] signed Teasley in 2008 and she suited up for the 2009 season. Teasley was then waived for [[Ivory Latta]].

==Career statistics==
{{WNBA player statistics legend}}
{| class="wikitable" 
| style="background:#afe6ba; width:3em;" |†
|Denotes season(s) in which Teasley won a [[WNBA Finals|WNBA championship]]
|}
===WNBA===
====Regular season====
{{WNBA player statistics start|caption=WNBA regular season statistics}}
|-
| align="left" style="background:#afe6ba | [[2002 WNBA season|2002]]<sup>†</sup>
| align="left" | [[2002 Los Angeles Sparks season|Los Angeles]]
|32||32||27.6||'''40.4'''||40.0||75.0||2.6||4.4||0.8||0.3||2.1||6.4
|-
| align="left" | [[2003 WNBA season|2003]]
| align="left" | [[2003 Los Angeles Sparks season|Los Angeles]]
|'''34'''||'''34'''||'''35.0'''||38.9||'''42.4'''||87.5||'''5.1'''||'''6.3'''||1.1||'''0.4'''||3.2||'''11.5'''
|-
| align="left" | [[2004 WNBA season|2004]]
| align="left" | [[2004 Los Angeles Sparks season|Los Angeles]]
|'''34'''||'''34'''||32.5||38.8||41.2||76.5||3.4||6.1||1.2||0.2||3.0||9.9
|-
| align="left" | [[2005 WNBA season|2005]]
| align="left" | [[2005 Los Angeles Sparks season|Los Angeles]]
|19||19||29.0||33.3||30.9||84.6||2.8||3.7||1.2||0.2||2.5||7.4	
|-
| align="left" | [[2006 WNBA season|2006]]
| align="left" | [[2006 Washington Mystics season|Washington]]
|'''34'''||'''34'''||28.8||37.1||34.4||82.6||2.6||5.4||'''1.3'''||0.3||2.3||10.7
|-
| align="left" | [[2007 WNBA season|2007]]
| align="left" | [[2007 Washington Mystics season|Washington]]
|33||33||22.6||33.6||32.9||93.3||2.2||3.3||0.7||0.2||1.9||5.2	
|- class="sortbottom"
| align="left" | ''[[2008 WNBA season|2008]]''
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="13" |''Did not play (waived)''
|-
| align="left" rowspan=2 | [[2009 WNBA season|2009]]
| align="left" | [[2009 Atlanta Dream season|Atlanta]]
|10||10||23.4||40.0||41.2||80.0||1.7||3.5||0.9||0.1||'''1.2'''||3.9	
|-
| align="left" | [[2009 Detroit Shock season|Detroit]]
|11||7||20.2||38.5||33.3||'''100.0'''||1.3||2.2||0.5||'''0.4'''||1.5||3.8	
|- class="sortbottom"
| align="left" rowspan=2 | '''Career'''
| align="left" | 7 years, 4 teams
|207||203||28.5||37.6||37.7||83.5||3.0||4.7||1.0||0.3||2.4||8.2	
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;"| All-Star
|1||0||24.4||33.3||40.0||100.0||6.0||6.0||5.0||0.0||0.0||10.0
{{S-end}}

====Playoffs====
{{WNBA player statistics start|caption=WNBA playoffs statistics}}
|-
| align="left" style="background:#afe6ba | [[2002 WNBA Finals|2002]]<sup>†</sup>
| align="left" | [[2002 Los Angeles Sparks season|Los Angeles]]
|6||6||30.7||33.3||22.7||84.2||2.2||7.8||'''1.5'''||0.2||3.7||8.2
|-
| align="left" | [[2003 WNBA Finals|2003]]
| align="left" | [[2003 Los Angeles Sparks season|Los Angeles]]
|'''9'''||'''9'''||'''34.7'''||32.8||22.2||80.0||4.4||'''7.9'''||1.3||0.0||3.0||7.8
|-
| align="left" | [[2004 WNBA Finals|2004]]
| align="left" | [[2004 Los Angeles Sparks season|Los Angeles]]
|3||3||29.3||26.3||33.3||'''100.0'''||1.0||5.3||0.7||'''0.3'''||4.7||6.3
|-
| align="left" | [[2005 WNBA Finals|2005]]
| align="left" | [[2005 Los Angeles Sparks season|Los Angeles]]
|2||1||30.5||33.3||18.2||66.7||2.5||7.0||'''1.5'''||0.0||'''1.5'''||'''11.0'''	
|-
| align="left" | [[2006 WNBA Finals|2006]]
| align="left" | [[2006 Washington Mystics season|Washington]]
|2||2||33.5||33.3||0.0||85.7||'''5.0'''||4.0||0.5||0.0||3.5||10.0
|-
| align="left" | [[2009 WNBA Finals|2009]]
| align="left" | [[2009 Detroit Shock season|Detroit]]
|5||5||16.6||'''44.4'''||'''40.0'''||66.7||0.2||1.8||0.2||0.2||1.8||4.8
|- class="sortbottom"
| align="left" | '''Career'''
| align="left" | 6 years, 3 teams
|27||26||29.4||33.5||23.2||80.0||2.7||6.1||1.0||0.1||3.0||7.6
{{S-end}}

===College===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+NCAA statistics<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://goheels.com/documents/2017/6/22/5068907.pdf|title=North Carolina Media Guide|access-date=2017-09-14}}</ref>
!Year
!Team
!GP
!Points
!FG%
!3P%
!FT%
!RPG
!APG
!SPG
!BPG
!PPG
|-
|1997–98
|rowspan=5| North Carolina
|30
|387
|'''41.5%'''
|35.9%
|77.1%
|3.5
|5.5
|1.9
|0.1
|12.9
|-
|1998–99
|'''36'''
|'''555'''
|41.3%
|31.3%
|68.7%
|'''4.7'''
|'''5.9'''
|'''2.6'''
|'''0.528'''
|'''15.4'''
|-
|1999-00
|26
|379
|39.0%
|31.7%
|81.5%
|4.0
|6.2
|2.3
|0.192
|14.6
|- class="sortbottom"
|''2000-01''
|align=center colspan=10|''Did not play''
|-
|2001-02
|33
|501
|36.7%
|'''36.8%'''
|'''86.3%'''
|4.4
|5.7
|2.1
|0.394
|15.2
|- class="sortbottom"
|align=center colspan=2 |'''Career'''
|125
|1822
|39.6%
|34.0%
|77.9%
|4.2
|5.8
|2.2
|0.3
|14.6
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051115071704/http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/nikki_teasley/index.html?nav=page WNBA player profile]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050827191037/http://www.wnba.com/draft2002/teasley020417.html WNBA 2002 Draft one-on-one chat interview]
*[http://www.wnba.com/mystics/news/TEASLEY_MYSTICS_PART_WAYS-264138-230.html Teasley/Mystics part ways]

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