Candace Parker and her daughter Lailaa

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Candace led the Chicago Sky to its first-ever WNBA championship yesterday with an 80-74 victory over the Phoenix Mercury in Game 4 of the WNBA Finals.

Candace is pictured above with Lailaa, her 12-year-old daughter.

Lailaa's father is former NBA player Shelden Williams.

Candace and Shelden divorced in 2016.

Lailaa looks more like her father than her mother.


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Shelden stands 6-9 and Candace is listed at 6-4.

I'll guess Lailaa grows up to be 6-6.

Her legs look long in this picture.


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Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf have two children named Jaden and Jaz.

Jaden turns 20 later this month while Jaz just turned 18.

Neither child plays much tennis.

However, Jaden Agassi is an MLB pitching prospect who is trying to recover from recent Tommy John surgery.
 
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I'm fascinated by the father-son combinations in the NBA.

Dell and Steph Curry are probably the greatest father-son combo ever, but here's one combo that doesn't get enough love: Arvydas Sabonis and Domantas Sabonis.

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Too bad Arvydas was banged up by the time he arrived in the U.S. to play in the NBA.

He was 30 when he first played with the Blazers, but he was an old 30 after suffering various leg injuries.

Arvydas married the first-ever Miss Lithuania (pictured holding the dog).

Arvydas stands 7-3, Domantas is listed at 6-11 and the former Miss Lithuania looks to be 5-4 or thereabouts.


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I predict over the next 20-30 years we will see a lot more professional athletes producing professional athletes.

So many Jrs., II's and III's are appearing in college football and college basketball media guides these days.
 
railbird

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sons are usually 6 inches taller than the mother. daughters 6 inches shorter than father, daughters resemble their fathers, sons their mothers.
 
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John Kelly said:
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Jaden looks more like Steffi than Andre.
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private schools like usc and stanford typically go after rich kids, so they can afford the other 0.5 scholarship. Rick Vanderhook baseball mgr at CS Fullerton told me he had a hard time recruiting Trinity leauge kids because they were snobs. i would sit next to Rick at many CSF basketball games, he would yell at the refs non stop.
 
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Those who become stars are already playing travel sports and getting high level coaching at a young age. The rise from the projects to the pros is going to be a lot less common, but the parents who have been in the pros know the path well so can't be surprised it works so well.
 
Heim

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I still laugh at Parker being named defensive player of the year last season but was left off the first and second team All-Defensive teams. 😅
 
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Why the discrepancy?

Coaches vote on the first and second team All-Defensive teams while the media votes on the Defensive Player of the Year award.

I would trust the 12 coaches.
 
Heim

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Amazingly Derek Fisher benched her in the elimination game in crunch time
in 2019 (Semi). They lost.

For some reason Fisher didn't like her game. Sure she takes some ill advised
three pointers but Parker's stat lines are still respectable at 35.

Has to be sweet for her to leave and win another ring while Fish goes '12-20'
out of the playoffs.
 
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Heim said:
Amazingly Derek Fisher benched her in the elimination game in crunch time
in 2019 (Semi). They lost.

For some reason Fisher didn't like her game. Sure she takes some ill advised
three pointers but Parker's stat lines are still respectable at 35.

Has to be sweet for her to leave and win another ring while Fish goes '12-20'
out of the playoffs.
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The Fisher-Parker relationship did not work in Los Angeles.

James Wade, on the other hand, created the right culture in Chicago.

And, of course, Parker was on her best behavior to prove Fisher wrong.
 
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At the event in Millennium Park, some of the Chicago Sky players spoke about the sellout crowds at Wintrust Arena but no one mentioned crowd size for the parade or rally.
 
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The Chicago Sky basketball games have no radio outlet.

And Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf wanted nothing to do with supporting the franchise back in the day.
 
Heim

Heim

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Wat!?

Parker married a woman in 2019. I did not know that. Fuck, is Diggins the only hetero in the WNBA?
 
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John Kelly said:
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf have two children named Jaden and Jaz.

Jaden turns 20 later this month while Jaz just turned 18.

Neither child plays much tennis.

However, Jaden Agassi is an MLB pitching prospect who is trying to recover from recent Tommy John surgery.
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Let's Catch up with Jaden Agassi.
He's evidently completed his career pitching at USC.
Next, according to a report this week from "News 4 Tucson KVOA", link below, he will pitch for Germany in the WBC tournament.

No news on his sister but I'll bet she's a smoke show like her mom.

 
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