PHOENIX \u2014 No matter how old and accomplished you are, your parents are always going to see you as their child.<\/p>\n
A\u2019ja Wilson said Thursday that her parents, Roscoe and Eva, have been living with her for the past two months while watching her and the Las Vegas Aces chase a third WNBA title in four years. Wilson and the Aces have a commanding three-games-to-none lead over Phoenix in the best-of-seven finals. <\/p>\n
Game 4 is Friday at 8 p.m. in Phoenix. <\/p>\n
And while the four-time MVP loves having them with her, being under the same roof as her parents again takes some adjusting to.<\/p>\n
Even if it\u2019s her roof now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a chef, and they\u2019re still like, \u2018Make sure she gets her vegetables!\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018OK. Yes. We\u2019re good,\u2019 \u201d Wilson said, the exasperation of a teenager creeping into her voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re still on East Coast time, so they\u2019re up at like 5 a.m. over in my house. I hear pots clinking and clinking, and I\u2019m like, \u2018What is going on?\u2019 \u201d she said. \u201cBut, yeah, they\u2019re still my parents. They\u2019re still making sure that my bed\u2019s made, making sure I do my chores even though I have all those things taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roscoe and Eva Wilson still live in South Carolina, where Wilson grew up and went to college. But now that they\u2019re retired, they can spend long stretches on the road to cheer on their daughter. They were at the Aces\u2019 practice facility when WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert told Wilson she had won her fourth MVP award.<\/p>\n
Roscoe Wilson and Las Vegas owner Mark Davis even sported pink wigs for the occasion, a tribute to the initial colorway of her signature A\u2019One shoe.<\/p>\n
They also were in the stands when Las Vegas closed out its first-round series against the Seattle Storm, and a photo of the three of them after the game captures her parents\u2019 love and pride.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe emotion behind the picture is something I want to get framed and put in my house because my parents have been on this journey, obviously, for a long, long time,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cTheir support, it\u2019s unwavering. It\u2019s unconditional love that I need at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if they do sometimes still treat her like a kid.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, they never change,\u201d Wilson said with a smile. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what I love the most about \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 No matter how old and accomplished you are, your parents are always going to see you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-213374","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\/213374","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=213374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}