candaceparker: 🎶Dear Summer

“I know you gon miss me…” 🎶

I’m retiring.

I promised I’d never cheat the game & that I’d leave it in a better place than I came into it. The competitor in me always wants 1 more, but it’s time. My HEART & body knew, but I needed to give my mind time to accept it.

I always wanted to walk off the court with no parade or tour, just privately with the ones I love. What now was to be my last game, I walked off the court with my daughter. I ended the journey just as I started it, with her.

This offseason hasn’t been fun on a foot that isn’t cooperating. It’s no fun playing in pain (10 surgeries in my career) it’s no fun knowing what you could do, if only…it’s no fun hearing “she isn’t the same” when I know why, it’s no fun accepting the fact you need surgery AGAIN.

I fell in love with a little orange ball at 13 years old and BECAUSE of it my world goes ‘round. The highs are unmatched & the lows taught me lessons. On & off the court I’m proud I’ve always been true & stayed true to ME, even when it wasn’t popular.

I’m grateful that for 16 years I PLAYED A GAME for a living & DESPITE all the injuries, I hooped. I’m grateful for family, friends, teammates, coaches, doctors, trainers & fans who made this journey so special.

In the mean time, know IM A BUSINESS, man, not a businessman. This is 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.

My mission in life, like Pat Summitt always said, is to “chase people and passions and you will never fail.” Being a wife & mom still remains priority #1 & I’ve learned that time flies, so I plan to enjoy my family to the fullest!

Today’s players: ENJOY IT.

No matter how you prepare for it, you won’t be ready for the gap it leaves in your soul. Forgive me as I mourn a bit, but I’ll be back loving the game differently in a while.

🎶 ”I’m done for now so one for now

Possibly forever, we had fun together

But like all good things, we must come to an end

Please show the same love to my friends, dear Summer” 🎶

watched some messi compilation videos and now i feel better football is actually great <3

Missed drawing these two too

Bonuses

Reborn of earth and fire 🔥

Hermit a Day May 14: Doc!

charles managing his tyres so masterfully that he was able to extend his first stint to the point of matching lando’s strategy and going from p8 to p4 on a track where it’s extremely difficult to overtake making him driver of the day by far

You'll be in my heart, always

𝓦𝓗𝓐𝓣 𝓗𝓐𝓟𝓟𝓔𝓝𝓔𝓓 𝓣𝓞 𝓑𝓔𝓛𝓛𝓐 𝓖𝓞𝓣𝓗?

save me the mountain goats songs that begin with "going to...", save me the mountain goats songs that begin with "going to..."

Metallica posing in the cold in Alaska, USA, 1989

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We watched boiling rock episode. My elder sister is watching the series for the first time.

By the end of the episode, she's already a Mai Stan...as she should be 🤭🌝

his name is mumbo jumbo lookin ass 🤨

KICK ROCKS WRESTLING PODCAST Mercedes opens up about her WWE walkout for the first time in nearly 2 years.

"I really believe in not only the universe, but I really believe in myself and I believe in such a higher power of light that comes over me. Something inside of me told me I needed to do this and stand up for myself. It was a very hard decision because wrestling and WWE has been my whole life. It's the hardest decision I've ever had to make in my life, but it's my most proudest. It's crazy, because I would not be sitting here living the best version of my life and getting to be everything I've ever dreamt of, I get to be everything I've ever dreamt of and more. You have no idea, and it makes me so excited because that moment changed my whole life for the better. I'm so thankful for that moment, I'm so proud of myself, I'm so proud of Trinity, I'm so proud of how strong we were. Because like you said, everybody wanted to talk about it, everybody wanted to act like they were in the room. Everybody acted like they were in the room or worked there or were backstage or knew what happened. All I know is that I handled it like a CEO, like the Boss that I am with my head held up high and I can't say nothing but amazing things to WWE, I'm so thankful for the career that they gave me, the fans that they gave me, the life that they gave me, the dreams that they gave me, so many dreams, and I got to chase and live them all."

no matter what happens today, we'll always have this 🫶🏾

a quick study of slimshadyta 's piece

here is their twitter ...

Sit back and enjoy the feeling of flying in the streets of Singapore in Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes.

Considered as one of the greatest qualifying laps ever done, Lewis Hamilton put the Mercedes on pole when it already seemed impossible in 2018. The lap exceeded Mercedes simulation times and could not even be beat in 2019 when they had faster cars. Battling with millimeters of precision along the street circuit, Lewis Hamilton had made history. - flatoutjournal via IG