Candace Parker Biography

Candace Parker is a basketball icon. Parker first garnered headlines at the University of Tennessee, leading them to back-to-back NCAA National Championships in 2007 and 2008 while earning National Player of the Year honors in both seasons.  

Parker then joined the Los Angeles Sparks as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2008 WNBA Draft and became the face of the league, earning both WNBA Rookie of the Year and WNBA MVP honors in 2008 and winning a second WNBA MVP award in 2013. Overall, Parker was  a seven-time All-Star, ten-time All-WNBA Team selection, and two-time WNBA All-Defensive Team pick. 

Parker was also an international star, leading Team USA to gold medals in both the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 2012 London Olympic Games. Parker won her first WNBA Championship with the Sparks in 2016. After 13 seasons in Los Angeles, she signed with her hometown Chicago Sky, and won her second league championship in 2021. In 2023, Parker took her talents to the defending champion Las Vegas Aces and helped them go back-to-back before retiring the following year. 

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