Candace Parker Dunk Queen

Candace Parker was the first draft pick for the WNBA's Sparks in 2008. In her first WNBA game Candace Parker the record of most scores by a rookie player in a debut game. it shouldn't be a surprise that Candace Parker is dropping hoops around her completion in the WNBA ever since high school (when she played for Naperville Central High School girls basketball) she has been a phenomenal basketball player. Not only was she on Illinois' all-state and all-area team for four years. She is the...Read Full Story

Candace Parker on the Mend, Looks for Healthy Return in 2011 Posted Nov 3 2010 5:22PM By Frank Della Femina, WNBA.com   NBAE/Getty Images Have WNBA fans truly seen a healthy Candace Parker? Sure, there was the 2008 Rookie of the Year and MVP season where Parker played in 33 of the season’s 34 games, posting up 18.5 points per game and hauling in 9.5 rebounds per game in the process. Even then, the rook out of Tennessee was playing with a shoulder injury that would only require...Read Full Story

There were four seconds left on the regulation clock during the Los Angeles Sparks V Detroit Shock game last night and the Los Angeles Sparks were at the free-throw line. The shot was taken and then all hell broke loose when Sparks' rookie Candace Parker became entangled with Detroit Shock's Plenette Pierson and Pierson wasn't going to have any of it. Things got worse when Detroit assistant coach Rick Mahorn came onto the floor to keep the peace, but inadvertently knocked Lisa Leslie to the...Read Full Story

For her efforts, WNBA basketball star Candace Parker is being wooed as the counterpart of NBA great and legend Michael Jordan. What Jordan has given to the NBA is what Parker brings to the WNBA and apparently the comparison was forthcoming. She is nice, even sweet, and beautiful to boot. She is also MVP of a struggling women’s basketball league and will miss the 2009 WNBA season because she is pregnant with her first child. In the ESPN The Magazine cover story The Selling of Candace Parker...Read Full Story

WNBA superstar Candace Parker to be part of this year's Howard University Homecoming celebration.A celebrity basketball game will feature the likes of Olympian David Oliver, Ken L., Keith Robinson, actor Antwon Tanner, And1 Players, Wesley Jonathan, Chico Beneymon, Mishon Ratliff, Anwar Glover, Mo McRae, Claudia Jordon.Parker is expected commentate on the game.Parker tweets from her Twitter account: "Headed to the Howard University celebrity bball game. I'm commentating with John Sally...Read Full Story