A Sneak Peek in the Life of Powerful WNBA Players

TrendingJanuary 18, 2023

Liz Cambage

Liz Cambage is a multinational in the truest sense. While she was born in London, UK, she plays in the WNBA in America and for the national team of Australia. In the WNBA, she was drafted by Tulsa Shock in 2013. However, multiple on and off seasons later, she finally announced that she’d no longer play in the WNBA in 2022.

While playing for Australia, she was the leading scorer at the 2016 Olympics in Rio and was a part of the quarter-finalist team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Cambage is also a DJ and often performs at music festivals. She appeared at the 2021 EDC festival in Las Vegas.

Candace Parker

Even though Candace Parker only started playing in 2008, she has achieved a lot already on basketball courts. She was not only the WNBA Rookie of the Year when she made her debut, but she also won her inaugural year’s MVP award. As of 2022, she had made millions of fans with one million followers on her Instagram profile.

Parker has won three gold medals for America; she helped the Los Angeles Sparks win their first WNBA championship after 15 years in 2016 and helped Sky win their first-ever championship in 2021. Parker was named among the 100 Most Beautiful People of the World by People magazine in 2007.

Skylar Diggins-Smith

A six-time WNBA All-Star, Skylar Diggins-Smith is a professional basketball player who made her debut for the Tusla Shock in 2013 and played for them until the Phoenix Mercury acquired her in 2020. In her debut year, she signed an endorsement deal with RocNation, becoming the first woman to do so.

Aside from the average days on basketball courts, the Olympic gold medalist, Diggins-Smith, also works as a guest interviewer for ESPN and is an activist against child obesity. While she is already a mother to a child born in 2019, she revealed through an Instagram post in October 2022 that she was expecting another.