- Candace Parker and Sue Bird are once again trolling Steph Curry in a new set of CarMax commercials.
- The WNBA stars "poke fun" at the NBA sharpshooter and promote the "visibility of women's sports."
Candace Parker and Sue Bird are back doing what they do best.
No, not playing basketball — but trolling Steph Curry.
The WNBA superstars teamed up to once again "poke fun" at the NBA sharpshooter in a new series of CarMax commercials. And while the ads serve to promote the vehicle retailer, they also manage to help promote the "visibility of women's sports" and do so "in a funny way," as Parker told Insider.
"It's huge," the two-time WNBA MVP said. "We talk about the playing field and leveling it, but to be able to have some greats on set that have done well in their respective fields, being able to poke fun at one another and have a good time doing it... it's super important."
"Women don't always get viewed in the same ways as their male counterparts," Bird added. "So to do that but in a humorous way, using comedy, is my personal favorite... It's been fun."
The uber-successful "Call Your Shot" campaign in 2021 showed Parker and Bird — who both were selected with the No. 1 overall picks in their respective WNBA drafts — teasing Curry over his status as a seventh-overall pick. But this time, the perennial WNBA All-Stars go "One on One" with the two-time NBA MVP over their records and roles on the floor.
Parker's latest ad with Curry plays on their height differences. As the 6-foot-2 Golden State Warriors superstar uses his phone to "pre-qualify with CarMax fast and easy," Parker — who is 6-foot-4 herself — swats the device right out of Curry's hand.
"Did you just block me?!" he asks, perplexed, to which Parker replies: "I was protecting your credit score!"
When Curry explains that pre-qualifying has "no impact" on one's credit score, Parker apologizes and says the block was "force of habit." But shortly after he resumes scrolling, the two-time WNBA champion once again swats the phone to the floor.
"It feels really good," Parker says with a smirk.
Bird, meanwhile, wards off a challenge from Curry over their respective championship counts. The NBA star, who is fresh off winning his fourth NBA title, flashes a hand full of rings while using his phone to check out "an online offer on my car from CarMax."
"Steph, you know I've won four rings, too," Bird says while shaking her head.
But after a few more references to his championship hardware, Curry pushes Bird to do some gloating of her own. She notes that "I'm getting an online offer on my car, too" as she holds up her phone to show four WNBA championship rings of her own.
"Just gotta hit 'Get Started' with my finger that has two college national championship rings," she adds, flashing the hardware she won with the UConn Huskies.
"Well played, Sue," Curry relents. "Well played."
Parker said she thinks the ads are "hilarious" and that she often has fans "come up to me and crack up at the CarMax commercials." But perhaps the greatest indication of their success, she says, is that her father is a fan.
"If you get, like, one laugh from my dad, you've made it," Parker said. "So that commercial got it, and it was kind of it the 'good job' from my dad."