Sports Illustrated
For SI.com’s inaugural Twitter 100, SI editorial polled more than 50 Sports Illustrated staffers — from reporters to writers to editors — who are hard-core Twitter users and asked them which feeds they considered essential to their daily routine for finding news, information and entertainment from the sports world. We were happy to see that both Candace Parker and Kevin Durant both made the list.
Candace was selected for presenting an honest and amusing glimpse into the life of a WNBA superstar. Kevin was selected for actively engaging with fans and breaking major news, such as his five-year extension with the Thunder on his account. You can find the entire SI Top 100 HERE.
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L.A. forward Candace Parker plays all five positions and can light it up and throw it down. Most important, the former WNBA MVP, still only 25, is finally injury-free, which is just one of many tantalizing storylines as the league tips off its 15th season
Candace Parker has acquired a lot of labels in her young basketball career: Olympic gold medalist, WNBA MVP, wife (to NBA player Shelden Williams), mother (to two-year-old daughter Lailaa). But there’s one she hopes won’t stick. “Injury prone,” sniffs the fourth-year Sparks forward. “I can honestly say that for the first time in a long time I’m extremely healthy.”
The WNBA couldn’t ask for a better birthday present as it kicks off its 15th season on June 3. In its history the league has cultivated many great players, but few as transcendent as the 25-year-old Parker””a 6’4″, slam-dunking, shot-blocking force who plays all five positions at an All-Star level. What’s more, she is the rare athlete who handles the twin pressures of being a league superstar and a full-time mom as smoothly as she does the rock. “Candace is a perfect example of the evolution of our sport,” says Sparks G.M. Penny Toler. “In the past people would say, Oh, why don’t you wait until you’re done playing to have a baby? But Candace grew up in the society of the superwoman.”
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