On A Serious Note: All Hail Candice Wiggins

Candice Wiggins is likely one of the best females athletes to ever attend Stanford University. Over her four year career she was even able to surpass Lisa Leslie's, maybe the most famous female basketball player of all-times, Pac-10 scoring record. This year she won national player of the year honors and has led Stanford into an NCAA tournament final. She is one of the greatest female college basketball players of all time. However, while Candice's stat lines would trounce both of the Lopez twins', you can't even go to ESPN to check them because ESPN apparently does not consider individual women' statistics in college basketball as important enough to be recorded. While Brook and Robin Lopez helped take Stanford to the Sweet 16, that feat has been mere chump change for Candice. Yet while Brook and Robin will go on to have prosperous careers in the NBA, whether or not they ever crack a starting rotation, Wiggins will undoubtably slip into the anonymity of the WNBA although she will be a top player in the league. She will without a doubt be drafted higher than Brook or Robin, but will make approximately 40-50 times less money. If Candice is drafted in the top 5 of the WBNA draft, she will have a starting salary of around 45,000$ (she'd almost be able to pay her own tuition at Stanford). Say Brook goes 8th... he'll be making 2,000,000$. The couple hours that she lasted on the frontpage of ESPN.com along with Derrick Rose, Brandon Rush, and Candace Parker may be the peak of her media face-time for the rest of her life. The game tomorrow night will be the peak of her athletic career (maybe along with an Olympic Gold). For this reason, I tell you to watch the game and root for Candice Wiggins. Praise her both because this will be the peak of her career and because she, unlike either of the Lopez twins, is a true leader and a truly dominant basketball player. HAIL WIGGINS! 

 

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  • 4/13/2008 11:41 AM Tre wrote:
    I loved your article, the first time I saw Candice play, I fell in love with her aggression and style of play. Im glad that u took the time to give her the recognition that she deserves. 1
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