Parker won titles with all three WNBA teams she played for, and also won back-to-back national titles at the collegiate levelWNBA legend Candace Parker has announced her retirement following a wildly successful career full of individual accolades and team championships in virtually every stop she made.
“I promised I’d never cheat the game and that I’d leave it in a better place than I came into it. The competitor in me always wants one more, but it’s time. My heart and my body knew, but I needed to give my mind time to accept it,” she said.Parker was born in St. Louis but attended high school at Illinois’ Naperville Central, earning McDonald’s All-American honors and capturing consecutive National Girls Basketball Player of the Year honors.
Parker was then the No. 1 overall pick in the 2008 WNBA Draft by the Los Angeles Sparks, and made an immediate impact as she earned MVP honors in her debut season.Parker won the 2016 WNBA title with the Sparks, then signed a contract with her hometown Chicago Sky for the 2021 campaign. She helped lead the Sky to their first title in franchise history that season, averaging 13.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and four assists per game in helping the club to a title.
She also said that she never envisioned herself taking a “farewell tour,” and that she intended on going out on her own terms.
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