Candace Parker Announces Retirement After Historic 16-Year Career

LAS VEGAS (April 28, 2024)—Three-time WNBA Champion, and two-time league MVP Candace Parker introduced her retirement as we speak following a storied 16-year profession.

Please go to Candace’s instagram web page for her official announcement.

Please click on right here for a press release from the Aces.

The 6-4 ahead/heart signed with the Aces previous to the 2023 season, and began the primary 18 video games of the 12 months main Las Vegas to a 16-2 document. She was averaging 9.0 factors, 5.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.5 steals per recreation earlier than having surgical procedure on her left foot which sidelined her for the rest of the season. With the 2023 WNBA crown, the No. 1 decide within the 2008 WNBA Draft grew to become the primary participant in league historical past to win a championship with three totally different groups, having additionally executed so with Los Angeles (2016) and Chicago (2021).

Named to the WNBA Prime 20 at 20 and W25 groups, Parker is a 10-time All-WNBA honoree who performed her first 13 seasons within the league with the Los Angeles Sparks. She grew to become the primary participant in WNBA historical past to be named Rookie of the Yr and Most Precious Participant in the identical season when she averaged 18.5 factors, 9.5 rebounds and three.4 assists whereas serving to the Sparks to a 10-win enchancment in 2008.

A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Parker led LA to 11 playoff appearances, together with the 2016 WNBA Championship. She earned her second MVP award in 2013 when she averaged 17.9 factors, 8.7 rebounds and three.8 assists.

The Tennessee grad signed as a free agent with Chicago on February 1, 2021, and led the Sky to their first-ever WNBA Championship that very same 12 months.

As a collegian, Parker led the Girl Vols to the 2007 and 2008 NCAA Championships, incomes Closing 4 Most Excellent Participant accolades each years.

Since 2018, Parker has labored as an analyst and commentator for NBA on TNT, throughout the WNBA offseason. In 2019, she labored as an analyst for the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Championship Recreation, and commenced serving as an analyst and commentator for NBA TV and NCAA Event protection on CBS Sports activities.

PARKER’S CAREER HONORS
WNBA Champion	3	2016 (LA), 2021 (CHI), 2023 (LV)
WNBA Most Precious Participant	2	2008, 2013
All-WNBA First Crew	7	2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022
All-WNBA Second Crew	3	2009, 2015, 2018
WNBA All-Star	7	2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022
WNBA Defensive Participant of the Yr	1	2020
WNBA All-Defensive Second Crew	2	2009, 2012
WNBA Finals Most Precious Participant	1	2016
WNBA Rookie of the Yr	1	2008
WNBA All-Star Most Precious Participant	1	2013
Olympic Gold Medalist	2	2008, 2012
NCAA Championship	2	2007, 2008
Naismith Ladies’s School Participant of the Yr	1	2007-08
John R. Picket Award	2	2006-07, 2007-08
AP Participant of the Yr	2	2006-07, 2007-08
Closing 4 Most Excellent Participant	2	2007, 2008

 

PARKER’S CAREER WNBA RANKINGS
Factors	6,574	ninth
Area Objectives	2,471	7th
Area Objective Makes an attempt	5,163	ninth
Free Throws	1,290	thirteenth
Free Throw Makes an attempt	1,682	twelfth
Rebounds	3,467	3rd
Rebounds Per Recreation	8.5	8th
Defensive Rebounds	2,846	2nd
Defensive Rebounds Per Recreation	6.9	third
Assists	1,634	7th
Steals	521	sixteenth
Blocks	619	5th
Blocks Per Recreation	1.51	11th