Candace Parker

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

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Comedy, Sports, Arts

5.0 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Sparks star and legendary Lady Vol Candace Parker joins the guys for this week’s episode of Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles. The three start the show talking Chicago basketball and reminiscing on those legendary 90’s Bulls that they all grew up on. Then they relate their journeys to their first dunks — from toe raises on the stairs to touching high up on every wall they saw. Plus, Candace spills the secret to winning the McDonalds dunk contest: just make your dunks (Sorry Josh Smith and J.R. Smith). Then she tells the guys why she chose Tennessee and, of course, shares a few coveted Pat Summit stories. Candace speaks about her first years in the league and the physical impact having a baby had on her body, as well as the mental aspect of being a mom and a baller at the same time. The guys ask Candace for her take on the WNBA’s new CBA, and they discuss some of the surprising differences between the men’s and women’s leagues. Candace talks about clinching the 2016 WNBA Championship and tells Q and D that — if the Sparks didn’t have some of the injuries that they did in her first few years — they would’ve had a few more championships under their belt. Just saying. Tune in for more from one of the dopest female GOATs in the game.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	First question we asked everybody who come on when you made it to the WNBA, who was the first person to bust you at?
0:06.9	Ooh.
0:09.2	First person to bust my ass.
0:10.6	I mean, I got my ass busted every day in practice because I was playing with Dileesha Milton and Lisa Leslie.
0:16.4	Tina Thompson came over.
0:18.6	I mean, it was kind of every single day they would put me on the white team and they would be on the black team and they would take turns not calling the files.
0:26.0	And just going there.
0:27.4	So really it was pretty much every single day in practice.
0:31.3	Dumb legends too.
0:32.6	Yeah, you had it in on the daily. That's rough.
0:35.5	Dumb legends too, Lisa Leslie.
0:37.5	But they got you ready early, right?
0:39.2	Like, they got that's iron sharp and iron.
0:41.5	I mean, I had a successful first month of the WNBA season and I think I was feeling myself a little bit.
0:48.0	Michael Cooper, who was our coach at the time.
0:50.6	I remember the practice where we walked in and, you know, how you warm up when you're rookie after you had like
0:56.1	13 or 14 years ago.
0:57.3	You got a little lean when I was a kid.
1:01.2	Like, you know, jogging to spots and then we scrimmaged and he called my name with the white team.
1:07.6	And I remember being like, all right, like, let's go.
1:11.9	And then I realized I was not meant to win because I went to the basket and got taken out.
1:18.6	Live on location at Lake California.
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