Candace Parker

Just Women's Sports

News, Sports News, Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Basketball legend Candace Parker joins Kelley to share some of the wisdom she’s accrued in her Hall of Fame career. Candace discusses learning how to dunk at the age of 14, the influence of the late Pat Summitt on her life and career, how having a daughter made her a better person, her controversial exclusion from the 2016 Olympic team, what it meant to win a WNBA title in a season dedicated to Summitt, and much more. Go deeper. Together With: WISS, your full-service accounting & business growth advisory partner. Get a 30-minute advisory session Sports Save You Money.

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0:00.0	I always say I want to be like the magic Johnson of women's team sports.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Jess Women's Sports podcast where we talked to the biggest athletes in the world
0:14.4	about the untold stories behind their success.
0:16.7	I'm Kelly O'Hara, and my guest today
0:18.8	is Candice Parker.
0:20.3	Candice is one of the greatest basketball players to ever step foot on the fort.
0:24.0	Her first year in the pros, she was both Rookie of the Year and League MVP.
0:29.0	A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Candace led the Los Angeles Sparks to the 2016 W MBA title and was named
0:36.0	the finals MVP. Off the court, the Future Hall of Famer is a respected basketball commentator
0:41.5	as well as a mother.
0:43.4	Candice, welcome to the show.
0:45.1	Thank you so much for having me.
0:47.3	So we're gonna start from the beginning.
0:49.6	We're gonna go back to Little Candace Days. You come from a basketball family, but you didn't actually
0:56.6	start really playing it until 8th grade and up until that point you were playing soccer,
1:05.6	really. So what was giving me a rundown on that what was that about? I was the biggest soccer fan and player and I
1:11.4	will say it here my parents completely crushed my dream because they told me that I was going to be over six foot and they were like you're not going to be able to play soccer.
1:21.0	But you could have been amazing at soccer. Well tell that to my
1:25.4	hearings. No I loved soccer that's what I played you know that was my only sport
1:31.3	really until I was like 12 or 13 years old and the 96
1:35.9	Olympics really kind of shaped my sports I guess I was the biggest me a ham fan I was, you know, the Atlanta Games was the
1:45.8	magnificent seven with Dominique Mochiano and Dominique Dawes and Shannon Miller.
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