Candace Parker Wiki, Biography
Candace Parker (born April 19, 1986) nicknamed “Ace”, is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest WNBA players of all time, she was selected as the first overall pick in the 2008 WNBA draft by the Los Angeles Sparks She spent 13 seasons on the Sparks and two seasons with the Chicago Sky, winning a championship with each team.
Parker was born on April 19, 1986 in St. Louis, Missouri. She has two older brothers, including former NBA basketball player Anthony Parker.
Parker and her family moved to Naperville, Illinois at the age of two, where she spent her childhood. Her family loved basketball and she began playing at an early age. Her father played basketball at the University of Iowa in the 1970s. The Parker family were also Chicago Bulls fans. Candace was worried about playing basketball, fearing she would not live up to the level of play her father and brother demonstrated, so she focused on playing soccer. It wasn’t until the eighth grade that her family convinced her to play basketball. Her father helped coach and critique her. Parker said of the experience, “He did things to make me mad, to challenge me, because I was so much more athletic and had so much more knowledge of the game than everyone else that sometimes I just coasted. If me and my dad went to a park and he didn’t think I was practicing hard enough, he’d just get in the car and leave. And I’d have to run home. I mean run home. Once I figured that out, I’d always try to go to close-by parks.”
Like her older brother Anthony Parker, she attended Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois. Parker led her high school basketball team to Class AA state titles in 2003 and 2004, and compiled a school-record 2,768 points (22.9 points per game) and 1,592 rebounds (13.2 rebounds per game) while starting 119 of the 121 games in which she played.
Parker entered the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2004. On February 17, 2005, Tennessee announced Parker would redshirt her first season due to a knee injury she had suffered in a summer league game.
In 2018, Parker began serving as an analyst and commentator for NBA on TNT broadcasts of Tuesday games during the 2018–19 NBA season. She also served as an analyst for the 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Game. In 2019, she signed a multi-year extension with Turner Sports to be an analyst and commentator for NBA on TNT, NBA TV, and NCAA Tournament coverage on CBS Sports.
On May 7, 2007, People named Parker to its 100 World’s Most Beautiful people list.
On November 13, 2008, Parker married Shelden Williams, who played college basketball at Duke University and also played in the NBA. The couple has a daughter born in 2009. In 2013, the couple purchased a 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) home in Encino, Los Angeles, for $3.56 million. In November 2016, the couple split up after eight years of marriage when Williams filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences”.
In October 2020, Parker and her daughter became part of the ownership group of Angel City FC, a Los Angeles–based team that started play in the National Women’s Soccer League in 2022.
On December 14, 2021, Parker announced that she had married Anna Petrakova in 2019 and that they were expecting a baby. Petrakova gave birth to a son in February 2022. Parker has a dog named Prada. She previously had a St. Bernard mix named Fendi, whom she appeared with in an anti-fur ad for PETA.
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