LeBron, however, may have a hard time making that happen as the basketball legend is turning 40 this year. He is currently the oldest active NBA player. And while James has repeatedly said he has no specific plans for retirement yet, he also expressed that he does not plan to play ball “until the wheels come off.”

Candace Parker Wants to Own a WNBA, NBA Team

Candace Parker announced her retirement earlier this year, only shortly before the 2024 WNBA season began. After playing for 16 years for the WNBA and playing for three different teams and carrying them all to at least one championship each, Parker called it a career following continuous injury problems.

However, that did not mean that she would depart from doing basketball-related gigs entirely. In fact, the 2008 WNBA first pick is planning to continue business with basketball, this time by owning a team playing for the WNBA or the NBA.

In her post on Instagram announcing her retirement, Candace called this phase of her career “the beginning.”

“I’m attacking business, private equity, ownership (I will own both a NBA & WNBA team), broadcasting, production, boardrooms, beach volleyball, dominoes (sorry babe it’s going to get more real) with the same intensity & focus I did basketball,” she said.

Talking to Bloomberg, the two-time WNBA MVP discussed her plans to own a basketball team further.

“I always believe in speaking things into existence, and [owning a team] is a goal of mine,” Parker said. “Taking that mindset of being an athlete on the court you set all of those microscopic and telescopic goals, but really the work comes behind figuring out how I’m gonna do that, and every single day putting yourself in a position to be better than the day you were before. It’s just recreating the blueprint of what you had as an athlete.”

She added: “Obviously the championship would be owning a team.”

Aside from Airr, Candace Parker is parent to two other children, with her wife Anna Petrakova.