Volume 28 Issue 19 September 15, 2020
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LIFE IN THE
BUBBLE Story by John C. Cotey
Her 15th WNBA season is over for former Wharton High star Candice Dupree, and while she wishes her summer also included the WNBA playoffs, she says she couldn’t be happier. It was time to head home to be reunited with her three-year-old twins, Cali and Demi. “I told my mom, whenever that last game is, I need you here the next morning to get me out of here,” Dupree said from Bradenton, where she wrapped up the season with her Indiana Fever teammates in the WNBA bubble at the IMG Academy on Sept. 12. “I want to get home.” Home is Wesley Chapel, just up the road from Wharton, where Dupree remains the school’s all-time leading scorer. Today, she says, her greatest accomplishments are raising the twins
with wife DeWanna Bonner, a job she is eager to resume full time. Because Dupree and Bonner are both WNBA players, it is often no easy task. They play for different teams, have different schedules and because most women’s basketball players make more money playing overseas — before coronavirus and this summer’s WNBA season, Dupree was playing in Hungary, DeWanna in China — they have a hectic travel schedule and few days off. While some WNBA players brought their children into the bubble — basically an isolation zone to keep the players coronavirus-free so the season could be played — Dupree was able to rely on mom Patty and Dupree’s twin sister Crystal, who she jokes enlisted as the nanny the day Bonner gave birth to the twins.
See “Candice” on page 4
Photo courtesy of Candice Dupree
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