She won Olympic gold in Beijing while carrying her first child, but it was playing club basketball in mainland China that allowed Candace Parker \u201cto take care of my family\u201d.<\/p>\n
A WNBA champion with three different franchises in the United States, Parker had spells with Guangdong Dolphins and Xinjiang Magic Deer between 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n
Also a veteran of six seasons in Russia and one in Turkey, Parker, in Hong Kong exploring opportunities to add to her broad investment portfolio, told the South China Morning Post: \u201cThey are the premier countries for women\u2019s basketball [outside the US] and coming over here changed the way I looked at the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that point in time it was about taking care of my family, and playing in China allowed me to do that. Basketball there is first and foremost.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, my daughter came everywhere with me and being able to see the world through her eyes was huge [for personal development].\u201d<\/p>\n
Parker became pregnant around the time she was named the WNBA\u2019s 2008 rookie of the year and MVP, and a 2008 Olympic champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She won Olympic gold in Beijing while carrying her first child, but it was playing club basketball in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[183040,243074,550,3028,438,243076,5425,4677,3029,82137,360,33670,99,183041,434,243075],"class_list":["post-544376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-anna-petrakova","tag-avenue-sports-fund","tag-beijing","tag-candace-parker","tag-chicago-sky","tag-guangdong-dolphins","tag-hong-kong","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-marc-lasry","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sports","tag-ummc-ekaterinburg","tag-wnba","tag-xinjiang-magic-deer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544376","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=544376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}