With a flair for heroic plays and her trademark bun hairstyle, Taurasi was voted by fans in 2021 as the WNBA’s Greatest of All Time.

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And they’d laugh. Mission accomplished. “It’s so stupid,” says Bird. Taurasi even sat out the 2015 WNBA season, at the request of her Russian team, to rest. The team was paying her some $1.5 million; ...

Phoenix Mercury guard and UConn alum Diana Taurasi has officially retired, she announced in Time Magazine on Tuesday. Since ...

Arguably the greatest WNBA player ever, Taurasi holds a slew of league and Phoenix Mercury records, and she won an ...

She had to go overseas every offseason to supplement the WNBA’s limited salaries, going so far as to sit out the 2015 WNBA season in order to collect her $1.5 million paycheck from her Russian ...

Phoenix Mercury and WNBA legend Diana Taurasi has retired from ... Taurasi played for the Mercury every year since 2004 aside from one season (2015) during which her Russian Premier League team ...