Off the Court with Candace Parker

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

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🗓️ 15 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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WNBA superstar Candace Parker is one of the most decorated female basketball players to ever play the game. Off the court, she joins us to discuss the pay gap between men and women athletes (3:05), why she chose basketball at age thirteen (8:50), the influence of her father’s competitive spirit (10:58), the Participation Trophy Era (12:30), and how she’s processing the larger, cultural conversation around mental health in sports (14:49). Now the host of the “Moments with Candace Parker” podcast, we walk through a few of her own inflection points: overcoming a severe injury ahead of her first season at the University of Tennessee (21:00), having her daughter at twenty-three (25:05), and winning the WNBA Finals in 2016 (26:30). Then, before we go, Candace reflects on the lasting impact of her late mentor and coach, Pat Summitt (31:00), why she decided to come home to Chicago (34:44), and how she hopes her daughter remembers her in this moment, August 2021 (38:02).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frigo, so welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by basketball player and broadcaster Candice Parker.
0:48.0	Since being drafted into the W.N.
0:50.0	In 2008, Parker has been a premier player in the league. Two MVPs, two Olympic
0:57.4	gold medals, a five-time all-star. She's also been instrumental in the W.N.B.
1:03.4	growth. in part because of her ability to do a little bit of everything.
1:08.4	In 2019, she became an analyst for NBA games on TNT. This year she became the first woman featured on the cover of
1:16.3	NBA 2K, a wildly popular video basketball game for those unfamiliar. And most recently she became the host of a new
1:25.4	podcast called Moments with Candice Parker, a 10 episode series about navigating
1:31.5	the highs, lows, triumphs, and challenges of parenthood.
1:35.7	You can find her a new show wherever you are listening to this podcast, right now.
1:41.6	All of these endeavors have increased visibility not just for Parker, but the sport she represents.
1:49.0	As you know, with the Olympics this summer, there's been a lot of dialogue around professional athletes and mental health. I thought Parker was especially qualified to discuss this subject as someone who's been in the WNBA for over a decade.
2:06.4	But we also discuss the unique economics of being a female athlete, how she's balanced basketball and motherhood, the enduring legacy of her coach,
2:17.8	the late Pat Summit, and a whole lot more, even if you are not as obsessed with basketball as I am. I have a
2:26.4	feeling you'll find something in Parker's remarkable story. I hope you enjoy. Candice Parker, nice to meet you.
2:47.0	Candice Parker, nice to meet you.
2:50.0	Very nice to meet you as well.
2:51.0	Thanks for having me.
2:52.0	Can we start with with how are you doing
2:54.3	right now in this moment? I'm doing great. Are you laughing at me or the
2:59.4	question? I don't know I'm not laughing at you. I would never do that. You can laugh at me. I love the question. I don't know I'm not laughing at you I would never do that you can laugh at me I love the question I don't think we ask each other enough like how we're doing at this moment I'm doing well like I'm in my my place in Chicago have enjoyed the summer thus far, a little under the weather, so I'm
3:15.5	healing. Yeah, I'm good. Well, my goal by the end of this podcast is to make you feel like 2%
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