Candace Parker celebrates her first career WNBA title with the Sparks.(Photo: Brad Rempel, USA TODAY Sports) MINNEAPOLIS — Shortly after longtime Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt passed away in June after a long battle with early-onset Alzheimer’s, Los Angeles Sparks star and former Tennessee standout Candace Parker declared in a post-game interview that "from here on out, I’m playing for her." On Thursday, in front of a raucous crowd in Minnesota, she won Summitt a WNBA title when the Sparks beat the Lynx 77-76 in Game 5 of the WNBA Finals. The title is Los Angeles’ first since 2002 and the first of Parker’s career. It comes at the end of what’s been a trying year for the veteran who,...
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