Shaquille O'Neal caught a hilarious stray when Candace Parker spoke about being missing the WNBA's boom in popularity.
She was a three-time WNBA champion, two-time WNBA MVP, 2016 Finals MVP, played in seven All-Star Games, and won two Olympic gold medals with Team USA.
Parker announced her retirement from professional basketball in April 2024, thus ending an iconic 16-season WNBA career.with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, Parker seemed to wish that her career had arrived a bit later because of the WNBA's current boom.She later added, "All of us feel a responsibility and a part of the growth that's happening right now.
"More so, I'm mad because I'm thinking of how much better I could have been if I had an offseason, if I didn't have to go overseas, and I could have put weight on, and I could have bulked up in the weight room," Parker continued. "But I also look at the doors that are opening now, and where the sport is... I work with a lot of angry old heads. I don't want to be the angry old head.
"So I'm not gonna be, you know, Shaq coming in, like 'Oh, man up!' I'm not gonna be that. I'm gonna be the person where I'm happy where it's at," she concluded. Candace Parker, today, talked about how sometimes she gets mad with the fact that she couldn't enjoy this stage of the league, with the charter flights, practice facilities, and having offseason, without having to play overseas. that it could have made her a better player.Grant Young covers Women’s Basketball, the New York Yankees, and the New York Mets for Sports Illustrated’s ‘On SI’ sites.
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