Candace Parker is a goddamn beast. She always has been.
She was a beast at Tennessee, where she led the team to two consecutive national championships and just so happened to be named the Final Four’s most outstanding player for both of those wins. She was a two-time consensus national player of the year and the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game.
Parker was taken with the first pick in the 2008 WNBA draft by the Los Angeles Sparks. She would win the WNBA Most Valuable Player Award as a rookie and then win it again in 2013. In 2016, she led the Sparks to a WNBA title. She won every goddamn award possible and was selected to six All-WNBA teams and five All-Star teams.
So it only makes sense that the woman who plays like she’s in a video game actually becomes the face of one, as the Chicago Sky center will appear on the NBA 2K22 cover marking the 25th anniversary special edition of the game slated to be released Sept. 10. Parker becomes the first woman in the history of the game to grace the cover.
“I grew up a video game fanatic, that’s what I did, to the point where my brothers would give me the fake controller when I was younger where I think I was playing and I wasn’t,” Parker told ESPN.
Source: Candace Parker Makes History as First Woman to Grace Cover of NBA 2K
