During the height of the pandemic in January 2020, doctors found a grape-sized tumor on DeShields' spinal cord called a lumbar spinal schwannoma, a rare condition that only accounts for 5 percent of all spinal tumors.
Parker, 35, the captain of the WNBA's Chicago Sky team, also has a 12-year-old daughter named Lailaa from a previous marriage to former basketball player Sheldon Williams.