NEW YORK — Candace Parker plans on playing another season of pro basketball — if she’s healthy enough to do so.
The two-time WNBA MVP missed the Las Vegas Aces’ run to a second straight league championship after having surgery on her left foot in late July.
“I’ll weigh my options. If I feel really, really good, then I’ll play,” the former Tennessee Lady Volunteers star said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. “That’s a big if. I’ve got to get my foot right. My foot was really bad last year. I don’t want to cheat the game or cheat myself.”
Parker said that her left foot had been injured all season — her first with the Aces — but she played through it. It wasn’t until she injured her right ankle and Achilles’ tendon that she got an MRI on her left one, too.
“I did it, and it was 89% fractured. It’s crazy how things work out,” said the 37-year-old Parker, who is a free agent but would go back to Las Vegas, the third title team she has been part of in the WNBA.