{"id":207469,"date":"2025-10-07T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/207469\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:12:07","slug":"candace-parker-to-front-prime-videos-expanded-wnba-coverage-starting-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/207469\/","title":{"rendered":"Candace Parker to Front Prime Video&#8217;s Expanded WNBA Coverage Starting 2026 | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the WNBA Finals are still taking place and the 2026 season is several months away, Amazon\u2019s Prime Video has named Candace Parker to lead WNBA broadcasting coverage next year.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Stacy, the global head of production at Prime Video Sports, broke the news during an interview with the Sports Media Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have Michael and Candace leading our \u2018W\u2019 game coverage,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/how-amazon-prime-video-thinks-about-sports\/id1366264191?i=1000730542845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a> Stacy. \u201cWe\u2019re still working through the rest of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grady has been the play-by-play voice of the Minnesota Timberwolves since 2022 and will be one of the play-by-play voices for Prime Video\u2019s inaugural season of the NBA on Prime in October.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy also added that &#8220;there will be dedicated studio coverage of the league. Given the number of games, Prime Video will ultimately need at least one more broadcasting team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0While she was still an active WNBA player, Parker joined Turner Sports as an analyst and commentator in 2018. In various roles, she covered the NBA games on TNT and NBA TV, the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament (for Turner Sports and CBS Sports), and made appearances on the \u201cInside the NBA\u201d studio show, where she was featured alongside legends such as Charles Barkley, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, and Kenny Smith. After retiring from the WNBA in 2024,\u00a0 Parker covered the TNT Sports&#8217; studio coverage for the new Unrivaled 3-on-3 basketball league and<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/candace-parker-makes-history-as-first-woman-to-call-nba-all-star-game-i-have-to-pinch-myself-182811525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> made history by becoming the first woman <\/a>to provide in-game analysis at the NBA All-Star Game in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview in 2021, Parker shared how she prepared to call games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy TV is constantly on. If I\u2019m not watching a basketball game, then I definitely catch a recap every night just to kind of catch up and see what\u2019s going on,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/2021\/03\/15\/candace-parker-chicago-sky-tnt-analyst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>. But just in terms of the Tuesday night show, where you know your games farther out. I\u2019ll watch those teams more closely, and see what their beat writer is writing about, what they\u2019re saying, what the hot takes are. I\u2019ll even sign on and see what the odds are just to see who\u2019s projected to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0 Amazon\u2019s long-term deal with the NBA\/WNBA, Prime Video \u201cwill exclusively air 30 WNBA regular-season games each season worldwide, including the Championship Game of the WNBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the WNBA Finals are still taking place and the 2026 season is several months away, Amazon\u2019s Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-207469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}