TNT Sports Extends Contract With Candace Parker

WNBA legend Candace Parker has signed a multi-year contract extension to stick with TNT Sports activities as a sports activities analyst, the sports activities media big introduced.

Parker can even stay as a commentator for the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Championship on CBS Sports activities, a place she has held since 2019. She can even contribute to Bleacher Report and its B/R W platform and function a lead studio analyst for the 3-on-3 girls’s basketball league, Unmatched.

“I’m grateful to maintain doing what I like with my TNT Sports activities household,” mentioned Parker in a written assertion. “Attending to cowl the Massive EAST, Massive 12, March Insanity, and now Unmatched—all of it means quite a bit. These moments are particular, and I don’t take any of it as a right.”

After main the College of Tennessee’s girls’s basketball crew to NCAA championships in 2007 and 2008, Parker was drafted by the Los Angeles Sparks in 2008 and have become the primary participant to win WNBA MVP and Rookie of the Yr awards in the identical season. 

Parker performed in L.A. for 13 years, successful her first WNBA championship in 2016 and the WNBA Finals MVP award. She then performed in her hometown of Chicago, serving to the Sky win a championship in 2021. For good measure, she headed to Las Vegas and received a title with the Aces in 2023, her ultimate season.

Parker additionally received two Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012 with Workforce USA Girls’s Basketball.

In June, the Sparks retired Parker’s No. 3 jersey throughout halftime of the crew’s contest towards the Chicago Sky. She was the third Sparks participant to obtain the respect, following Lisa Leslie (No. 9) and Penny Toler (No. 11).

On Aug. 25, Parker is scheduled to have her quantity retired by the Sky on the Wintrust Enviornment.

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