{"id":196168,"date":"2025-10-08T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196168\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:13:08","slug":"sparks-legend-candace-parker-lebron-james-show-support-for-wnba-hall-of-fame-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196168\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks\u2019 Legend Candace Parker, LeBron James Show Support for WNBA Hall of Fame Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4t\">Just days before the Los Angeles Sparks&#8217; mid-September, 2025 regular-season finale loss to the Las Vegas Aces, WNBA legends Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles and Maya Moore were inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4w\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/sparks\/news\/sparks-rickea-jackson-talks-mindset-playing-through-injury-calls-out-opponents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sparks&#8217; Rickea Jackson Talks Mindset Playing Through Injury, Calls Out Opponents<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4z\">Both during and following the Sept. 6 ceremony, multiple current and former L.A. icons showed support for the three WNBA honorees.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"52\">Sparks&#8217; legend Candace Parker reposted a graphic highlighting the trio, via Instagram Stories. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An updated look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mVMp9tVJuW\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/mVMp9tVJuW<\/a> Arena rafters \u2014 now complete with Candace Parker\u2019s No. 3 jersey on the far left (retired on June 29).<\/p>\n<p>20 combined championships and 17 retired jerseys between the Sparks and Lakers. \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aFfVIn0kE2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/aFfVIn0kE2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Geffner (@BenGeffner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenGeffner\/status\/1943383034733949353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"58\">Parker spent 13 illustrious seasons with the purple and gold while helping the franchise to a WNBA championship in 2016. The former Sparks&#8217; star just recently had her No. 3 jersey retired into the Crypto.com Arena rafters at halftime of L.A.&#8217;s June 29 game against Chicago.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5b\">Parker will first be eligible for Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame&#8217;s Class of 2027 \u2014\u00a0after retiring from professional basketball last year.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When legends link up \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>Sue Bird, Geno Auriemma, and LeBron James share a moment ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoophall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Hoophall<\/a> Enshrinement Ceremony! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/25HoopClass?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#25HoopClass<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zh9wtRKbn9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Zh9wtRKbn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WNBA (@WNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA\/status\/1964466807340945839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5h\">Furthermore, Lakers&#8217; star LeBron James \u2014\u00a0in attendance for the ceremony \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WNBA\/status\/1964466807340945839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared an embrace with Bird and others<\/a>, paying tribute to the WNBA&#8217;s Hall of Fame Class of 2025.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5k\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/sparks\/news\/former-sparks-guard-signed-by-fever-amid-caitlin-clark-s-absence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Sparks Guard Signed By Fever Amid Caitlin Clark&#8217;s Absence<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5n\">The September ceremony came just months after former Sparks&#8217; guard-forward Alana Beard was officially inducted into the Women&#8217;s Basketball Hall of Fame&#8217;s Class of 2025 in June \u2014\u00a0in a separate ceremony at the Historic Tennessee Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5q\">Beard was honored alongside Bird, Fowles and others,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/news\/2025\/6\/14\/womens-basketball-alana-beard-enshrined-into-womens-basketball-hall-of-fame-class-of-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">per a release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Sparks News:<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\">For more news and notes on the Los Angeles Sparks, visit<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/sparks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Los Angeles Sparks on SI.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just days before the Los Angeles Sparks&#8217; mid-September, 2025 regular-season finale loss to the Las Vegas Aces, WNBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-196168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}