No More Jumping Through Hoops

Heather La Bella is always happy for exposure, though it’s usually on behalf of the Los Angeles Sparks. La Bella, 32, director of tactical marketing for the WNBA team, met with Playboy recently to inquire about advertising in its pages. But the magazine had other ideas—and wound up running this portrait of La Bella (tastefully edited by our art department) as its “Employee of the Month” feature for August.

“Part of my job is to try to increase ticket sales and I think this will work,” La Bella told ESPN.com.