Description Tiffany Hayes is a professional women’s National Basketball Association basketball player. Tiffany was born in Harlem, New York City, the youngest of four children of mothers that grew up in the segregated Little Italy section of the Stuyvesport, New York neighborhoods. Her father was a prosperous attorney and her mother was a talented writer. Tiffany attended the private girls’ academy during her junior high years of high school, where she excelled in ballet, drawing and writing.
At the conclusion of her junior year in High School, Tiffany discovered she had a true love of basketball and began playing on an all-girls traveling team which went on to represent the USA in the international girls’ basketball tournament in Germany in 2000. After high school, she joined the professional team of the Washington Mystics where she played two seasons before joining the NBA and spending the next seven seasons with the Orlando Magic where she was a four-time All-Star and two-time Defensive Player of the Year. Currently, Tiffany is an Associate Professional Basketball Coach with the Orlando Magic and is set to be an analyst for ESPN.
Career NotesThe career path previously mentioned spanned three decades before Tiffany Haynes decided to pursue a career in basketball. During her playing years, Tiffany was a name that many famous athletes and basketball personalities were known to have used as their own personal Identifier, namely T-Mac. Although her professional achievements are exceptional, she has never achieved the same level of success in her personal life. After leaving the sport of basketball, she pursued a writing career for several years but found little success until late in her career when she decided to try writing as an editor for a men’s magazine. Tiffany has since remained committed to her writing endeavors. In fact, her first novel was released in 2005 and was not successful.