Candace Parker: GOAT Women's Hoopers, Kobe Lessons, Maya Moore Wars

All The Smoke

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Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Candace Parker sits down with ALL THE SMOKE for a rare and honest conversation about her legendary career and the future she's helping build. She takes us from dunking in high school to learning under Pat Summitt at Tennessee, linking with Kobe in LA, and her Finals battles with Maya Moore. She opens up about giving birth mid-career and still dominating, winning that 2016 WNBA championship for Coach Summitt, and what it means watching A'ja Wilson, Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers carry the torch. Now running Adidas Women's Basketball, Candace breaks down the WNBA's evolution, Unrivaled, and why this generation is different. This is one of the greatest to ever do it, unfiltered and all in on the future of the game.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.2	Welcome back to All the Smoke, season six.
0:07.2	Man, we started off with the banger and we got another one.
0:10.6	I want to tell you guys, this person that we're about to end right now, I've probably
0:13.9	been chasing the longest outside of Blake Griffin.
0:17.4	Her and Blake Griffin, who, I've been bothering the fuck out of both on, but I appreciate it.
0:22.2	She finally found time in her busy schedule to come down in and kick it with us, man.
0:26.4	So, um, someone we're both a huge fan of.
0:29.2	Welcome to the show, Candace Parker.
0:31.0	Thank you.
0:32.9	Appreciate all.
0:34.4	The one and only.
0:35.6	Appreciate you when we were just talking about parenthood off camera.
0:39.4	So you're a mother of four, three, excuse me.
0:43.0	What's the age range?
0:44.4	So we got 16, 3 and a half, and 17 months.
0:49.0	Ooh, two little.
0:50.0	Yeah, just decided to start over.
0:52.3	Start over again. You know a little bit about that. What's boy life like? I have four boys and they're crash dummies. Like what is? He said crash dummies. What it? Like what are you're talking about? You're holding your son's hand, walking down the stairs. He just wants to jump. Like what is it like being a boy mom now too? Well, first, we went to Disney yesterday and I stuck him on Guardians of the Galaxy.
1:15.2	He's three and a half, but he's like 43, 44 inches tall. So he's really tall and can go on all the
1:20.3	rides. So it's fun from that dynamic, but I don't know what they're thinking 90% of the time.
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