NEW YORK — Candace Parker plans on playing another season if she’s healthy enough to do so.
The two-time WNBA MVP missed the Las Vegas Aces‘ run to a second straight league championship after having surgery on her left foot in late July.
“I’ll weigh my options. If I feel really, really good, then I’ll play,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. “That’s a big if. I’ve got to get my foot right. My foot was really bad last year. I don’t want to cheat the game or cheat myself.”
Parker said that her left foot had been injured all season — her first with the Aces — but she played through it. It wasn’t until she injured her right ankle and Achilles tendon that she got an MRI on her left one too.
“I did it and it was 89% fractured. It’s crazy how things work out,” said Parker, 37, who is a free agent but would go back to Las Vegas.
She was on a scooter for 10½ weeks after having surgery and is finally starting to feel a bit better.
“Every day my foot doesn’t feel great walking,” she said. “I continue to rehab and stuff. I can’t play in pain. It makes the game not fun. I realized on Halloween that I want to take my kids trick or treating. I don’t want to be sitting in the car because I can’t walk. I want to be able to go out to the beach. I love playing beach…
