Candace struck an early curse.
In a day Spark The star’s shirt, whose departure coincided with the five -year -old Kandis Parker She almost missed her news conference before she was.
With a room full of media that eager to write a rare Sparks story, Parker fell into traffic in conferences and was late that the game started and took questions of only five minutes.
She struck Candice’s later curse.
In the fourth quarter against Chicago Sky in Arena Crypto.com, in front of a crowd waving the Kandis Parker Biles, The Sparks did something they had been doing in bouquets since Parker crossed the city after the 2020 season.
The Kamilla Cardoso team is still able to overcome the Sparks team full of inspiration Parker, and 92-85 won a gathering in the fourth quarter and converted what should have been the best day of the year to the worst loss for this season.
“It is difficult,” said Emma Cannon.
It is difficult to play, more striking to watch, this is the twelfth loss of Sparks in 17 games as it rises towards their familiar place in Lower Wnba ranking.
This was previously a special privilege, as the elegant retirement ceremony was mentioned at the end of the first half of Baker, with the presentation of Lisa Leslie and Baker and embraced the permanent crowd.
This is now a scourge of concession, as 40 minutes of basketball reminds everyone, and the evil playing hard but lacks talent, direction and any kind of future.
In the Five Paraker 13th seasons here, the team went 108-50 and reached the finals twice while winning its third championship.
In the five years since then, they are 55-110 and have not reached the qualifiers.
If this is not a curse, it is a strong coincidence.
History shows that it could have been, and it should have been, very different.
Parker, MVP twice and seven times all stars, should play her entire career here. You shouldn’t leave a free agent. Like Leslie, it should have been spark forever.
“There is no idea how they allowed her to flee,” said Lesley To the Times Anthony de Leon.
The former Sparks player Candice Parker’s shirt is shown during her shirt retirement.
(Jesse Alshih / Associated Press)
She left due to problems with the trainer at that time Derek Fischer, due to the controversy between the afternoon, because the organization has already started a downward vortex.
If the ownership group led by Mark Walter has taken care of, it will remain spark. If the owners made the same effort made in the management of the evaders, the issues would have been dealt with and Parker priority will be given. It was not, then I went.
“The culture was toxic … I was part of that culture and was absorbed in that toxicity,” Parker wrote in her book, “The Can-Do MindSet”.
She also left because she wanted to play near her hometown in the Chicago area, later retreated to Las Vegas, and won a title in both places when she should have won her here. Here is the guess that she would have been getting it here, as she admitted on Sunday that Los Angeles had become her home.
“Los Angeles is not related to the ball only,” she told the crowd during the first half ceremony. “For me anymore, it is now the place we invite home and we will get home forever. So thank you very much, I love you all, I am very appreciated, and I cannot believe that. Thank you all. Thank you.”
One cannot blame her if she no longer gets to know her former team. The sparks no longer have a star, a deep seat, a championship in hell.
Full disclosure: I am the terms of sparks. I am so fans that my daughter MC has partial seasonal tickets.
Also full examination: When choosing our seats for this season, we had an option to sit behind any of the seats, so we took the decorated seats. Visitors always have more stars, and visitors are always more enjoyable.
Certainly, these sparks have some bright moments. Kelissy Bloom works as a star like any star in any local sport, Azzurá Stevens is one of the strong league forces and Dearica Hamby.
But a series of bad draft choices and lack of attractive infrastructure – the fictional permanent practice facility is built on any day now! Preventing them from getting a kind of stars who hold a team at Crunch time, a type of difference that this city deserves.
Bloom told me before Sunday’s match: “I feel there.” ))
Plum has been a great addition since her coming here in the last winter in a trade, and she is working more seriously in pre -warm up some players during the entire game, but what she was saying, we heard before.
Candace Parker MVP twice, the rising for this year and led the spark to the 2016 title in its 13th seasons with the team.
(Associated Press)
The latest rotation is that the total Sparks 2 draft, Cameron Brenk will make a big difference when it returns from knee surgery later this summer. But it did not make a big difference early last season when she played. Rica Jackson, another draft of last season, scored six points on Sunday and was basically a bust.
With the exception of the signature of a major free agent – who wants to play in a team without a permanent home? There is not a lot of help coming next year because they traded the first round selection.
So their slogan should be … waiting for Juju?
Everything is very frustrated, especially on the day it should have been very lying.
Before the match, the new coach, Lyn Roberts-has already described her honey as “we must win.”
Since the curse of Candice, this means, “about to lose.”
