WNBA star Candace Parker is finalizing a one-year deal to return to the Las Vegas Aces, her agent Boris Lelchitski of SIG Sports confirmed to The Athletic on Wednesday.
News of Parker’s return to the two-time defending WNBA champions was first reported by Winsidr. Parker signed a one-year contract with the Aces last offseason and played 18 games for the franchise before suffering a foot fracture that required surgery and kept her sidelined for the remainder of the season.
Parker said in November that if she was healthy, she would return for a 17th year in the WNBA. “But I’m not gonna play in pain anymore,” she said in an interview with “Good Morning America.” “It’s too important — the trick-or-treating, the crossing over my kids, it’s too important. If I’m healthy I’m gonna play.”
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Candace Parker says she won’t ‘play in pain anymore’
At the time of her foot procedure, Parker said the surgery was “the only option for me to be healthy again.” And although her season ended abruptly in July, the 6-foot-4 forward remained a key member of Las Vegas’ most recent title run. Star forward A’ja Wilson said during the WNBA Finals that Parker had “been really tapping into us,” talking with teammates on the sideline and when she was at…
