Candace Parker
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
Audacy
4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 256 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Candace Parker, the Hall-of-Fame-to-be basketball player who works as a studio and game analyst across the NBA on TNT, NBA TV and NCAA Tournament coverage. Parker will join Brian Anderson, Stan Van Gundy and Stephanie Ready for the Nets-Sixers on Nov. 22 on TNT. In this podcast, Parker discusses how she entered broadcasting and her approach to the medium; the difference in studio work versus game work; how she prepares for her assignments; why basketball has had women in broadcasting roles that men held traditionally; being the subject of an upcoming ESPN documentary; the process of being vulnerable publicly and how that can be a strength; paying in Russia for UMMC Ekaterinburg from 2010 to 2015; Brittney Griner’s sentence; her marriage to Anna Parker (nee: Petrakova), a former Olympic basketball player from Russia; her desire to play in the WNBA next year; why Seimone Augustus was such a tough guard; working on Inside the NBA and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.
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| 0:30.5 | I think the guys and the players on the set respect me because they know I put the work in |
| 0:36.8 | and they know that I'm a basketball junkie. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.5 | And I, the, the, my resume, if you will, may have gotten me in the door, but I think what has |
| 0:45.6 | kept me at the desk and having their respect is, yes, the on-air conversations. |
| 0:52.5 | But it also is like off-air when we're in the back |
| 0:54.9 | debating and talking about stuff. That's when I have, and it's, that's when I have the most |
| 0:59.5 | fun. I'm sitting here debating with Shaq. He was on my wall. Like I'm sitting here talking |
| 1:06.4 | with D-Wade. Like, you know, I went to, you know, we were in college around the same time and I watched |
| 1:11.6 | and went a championship when I was, like, it's that type of stuff, um, that I think you earn |
| 1:18.6 | each other's respects. |
| 1:19.6 | And I won't say that they, you know, I have to earn theirs or whatever, but it's really that mutual respect. |
| 1:24.6 | And, um, you know, they know I'm going to say it. So, and I'm going to come with facts. |
| 1:37.6 | Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick |
| 1:41.5 | Antonetti. One guest this week absolutely deserves to be solo. |
| 1:46.2 | Canis Parker is a Hall of Famer to be basketball player, plays for the WMBA, Chicago Sky, |
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