After 16 seasons, the 3x WNBA Champion introduced her retirement from the league. Now, with the WNBA season beginning, she’s been named President of Girls’s Basketball at Adidas. Extra about her profession and reactions from gamers and coaches across the league.
Three-time WNBA Champion Candace Parker despatched shockwaves throughout the basketball world when she introduced her retirement from the league. Promising she’d by no means “cheat the sport,” Parker is prepared for the subsequent chapter of endeavors in her life. In doing so, the previous WNBA Champion is leaving the sport in a greater place and going out on her phrases. Whereas some athletes go for a retirement tour, Parker ended her profession in personal. The previous WNBA MVP goes out the identical method she entered the league, along with her daughter Lailaa.
All enterprise apart, her prime precedence stays being a mother and spouse.
In a heartfelt publish on social media, the WNBA veteran had two phrases, “I am retiring.” And for all the present and new gamers coming into the league Parker had a brief piece of recommendation, “get pleasure from it.”
Having spent 16 years within the league, Parker, greatest often known as “ACE,” revolutionized the sport of basketball. Certainly one of one, Parker will certainly be missed on the courtroom.
Earlier than the announcement, Parker introduced she would return to the Las Vegas Aces in February. After signing a one year-deal with the reigning champions, Parker was restricted to simply 18 video games on account of a fractured foot. Unable to return to the courtroom, she watched on because the Aces have been named back-to-back champions. A competitor her complete profession, no. 3 decided that was greatest for her. Admitting rehabbing within the offseason “hasn’t been enjoyable,” Parker’s fractured foot merely hasn’t cooperated to the fullest. General, she did remind us the ten surgical procedures she’s had in her profession.
