Kahleah Copper's reaction to seeing Sky's championship ring with Candace Parker is priceless
The Chicago Sky celebrated their 2021 WNBA championship again on Tuesday night and no one had a better reaction to the ring than Finals MVP Kahleah Copper.
Sky faithful watched their first banner raised into the rafters at Wintrust Arena ahead of a 95-90 win over the Indiana Fever. And WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert was on hand to congratulate the team on its unexpected title run as the No. 6 seed.
Each player was introduced and handed their championship ring in a box during the pregame ceremony. Candace Parker was the penultimate player out and had her 13-year-old daughter, Lailaa, and infant son, Airr, with her.
The Sky also received their championship rings including Candace Parker who brought her baby out with her to (hopefully) enjoy the festivities @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/rwVu9vxXpa
— Matt Zahn (@mattzahnsports) May 25, 2022
Copper was the final player announced and waited until she was back with the team, and standing near Parker, to open the box.
Her reaction is everything.
That feeling when you see your WNBA Championship ring for the first time 🤩 @kahleahcopper @chicagosky pic.twitter.com/d8unyjw40D
— WNBA (@WNBA) May 24, 2022
The TV camera panned out for the Vanderquigs — Courtney Vandersloot and Allie Quigley — to show the rings to each other with beaming smiles on their faces. Azurá Stevens was hugging her box close.
Copper showed off the ring later on the WNBA's official Instagram account, but not before exclaiming "it's blinding!" upon opening the box again.
Copper averaged 17 points and 5.5 rebounds in the finals and re-signed with the Sky in free agency. It was the second ring for Parker, who won her first as a Los Angeles Spark in 2016. Lailaa was 7 at the time.
The Sky defeated the Dallas Wings in the first round and upset the No. 4 seed Minnesota Lynx in the single-elimination second-round game that is no longer. It took them four games to upend the No. 1 seed Connecticut Sun, which ended the team's winning streak that dated back to the first week of July. The finals was a heated contest with the Phoenix Mercury that they won at Wintrust in Game 4 of the best-of-five series.
The Sky (4-2) welcome the Mercury (2-4) back to town on Tuesday night (8 p.m. ET, ESPN) for the first time since Diana Taurasi broke a door at the arena and Copper provided a lasting image of the series with Mercury guard Sophie Cunningham.
