{"id":38706,"date":"2025-08-01T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38706\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:02:10","slug":"candace-parker-facing-backlash-over-angel-reese-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38706\/","title":{"rendered":"Candace Parker Facing Backlash Over Angel Reese Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candace Parker Facing Backlash Over Angel Reese Decision<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Candace Parker’s legendary WNBA career inspired today’s generation of stars, but the two-time MVP sparked more negative reactions with a choice she made off the court.<\/p>\n

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The three-time WNBA champion has teamed up with Indiana Fever All-Star Aliyah Boston for a new podcast called “Post Moves” launching on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The former Chicago Sky player’s insistence on using Angel Reese’s name to promote the first episode sparked extreme backlash from fans when a teaser clip dropped on social media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Fans Don’t Like Candace Parker Using Angel Reese’s Name For Clicks<\/p>\n

“Speaking about Angel must be the only way to be heard on a Podcast or to stay relevant?” said a sizzling response<\/a> on X. Here is the clip in question.<\/p>\n

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Even Boston seemed taken aback by Parker’s “spicy” question about choosing a player to take over Reese.<\/p>\n

Parker, whose jersey is already retired by the Los Angeles Sparks and the Sky are closely following suit, led with the claim “I, in no way, shape or form am a hater,” but the comments on social media begged to differ.<\/p>\n

“Candace we still talking about Angel?!” asked a fan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Just gotta use the face of basketball for clicks huh?” said another<\/a>, referencing Reese.<\/p>\n

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“This woman needs to take Angel’s name out of her mouth,” demanded one social media user<\/a>. “It’s getting too much now.”<\/p>\n

CP3’s Decision Was Not Popular, But It Was Smart<\/p>\n

Parker knows that big names drive views, and talking about Reese falls in line with her strategy \u2014 whether fans find it authentic or not.<\/p>\n

She also leveraged Boston’s relationship with Fever superstar Caitlin Clark to help promote their new show<\/a>, but it did not draw the same ire from fans.<\/p>\n

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Reese is far and away the most popular WNBA player based on social media following, with more than 11 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and X.<\/p>\n

The Sky forward also has her own podcast, “Unapologetically Angel,” which notably used Clark in the thumbnail<\/a> of its debut episode to generate some buzz.<\/p>\n

Parker’s controversial decision seemed to pay off, as the negative comments helped the post generate more than 300 comments, 800 bookmarks and 1.2 million views in the first few hours on X alone.<\/p>\n

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Related: \u201cThose Days Are Gone\u201d: Chicago Sky Coach Admits It\u2019s Time for a Kamilla Cardoso Change<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Angel Reese Turns Heads With New Demands for Chicago Sky<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 30, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candace Parker Facing Backlash Over Angel Reese Decision originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Candace Parker’s legendary WNBA career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4655,28101,724,49,735,48,27022,2803,632,11610,1942,82,630],"class_list":["post-38706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aliyah-boston","tag-angel-name","tag-angel-reese","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-candace-parker","tag-indiana-fever","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-sky","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38706","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=38706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}