Watkins, a senior from Columbia, South Carolina, who will play for coach Dawn Staley at South Carolina next season, got Sky star Candace Parker’s jersey about a month ago and began planning the dunk after her coach suggested she put it on for the McDonald’s All-American Slam Dunk Contest.
Eighteen years after Parker became the first woman to win the contest, Watkins became the third — wearing Parker’s Sky jersey. And she also did it on the court that five months earlier was covered in blue and gold confetti after the Sky won their first WNBA title.
