Clear-eyed

Candace Parker is leaving the WNBA Sky, where she played the last two seasons, for the Las Vegas Aces. The Naperville native said in part she wanted to be closer to her 13-year old daughter, who’s starting high school late next summer. That Parker and her family live in Los Angeles leads me to ask: Why did the Chicago media portray her 2021 signing with the Sky as a “homecoming”? She never played with the Sky before and never relocated in the offseason to the Chicago area once she signed with them. To pretend otherwise was lazy journalism pure and simple. Parker made a business decision to play here and another to go elsewhere, as is her right. Leave “homecoming” for athletes from here who play and live here. Nothing else fits the definition, no matter how tempting it is to pretend otherwise.