Diana Taurasi, 42, has called her incredible career in the WNBA.
She has had an impact from her first moment at UCONN HUSKIES in 2000 and is still as good as ever in the twilight of her career, helping to lead Phoenix Mercury into the playoffs.
“In an exclusive conversation with Time, Taolasi publicly revealed for the first time that she retired from basketball. “Mentally and physically, I was just full of satisfaction. “She played for Mercury for all 20 WNBA seasons. “It's probably the best way I can describe. I'm very satisfied and I'm very happy. ”
Taurasi scored 10,646 points in 565 regular season games (and was the only WNBA player to score more than 10K), and in 72 playoff games, she scored another 1,476 points.
Her achievements aren't even covered in this list, but we've tried our best to summarize these lists:
The first player to win six Olympic gold medals
🔸3×WNBA Championship
🔸2×WNBA Final MVP
🔸10×All-WNBA first team
🔸The best rookie of the year
🔸3×NCAA Champion
🔸2×Naismith Player of the Year
🔸5xWNBA Scoring Championship
🔸14X Full WNBA Selection
wnba MVP
🔸The best Rookie of the year
🔸3XNCAA Champion
3X World Cup Gold Medal
WNBA leader at 3 pm
“My scoring record or six gold medals, someone will experience the same hunger, addiction to basketball and put those records in a different name in different ways,” Torasi said. “That's sports,” he said. The whole purpose. It will be fun to watch. Hopefully not soon.”
Taurasi first gained national reputation at UConn twenty years ago, when she led the Huskies three consecutive national championships from 2002 to 2004, including an unbeaten season with many basketball in charge. It is said that this is the greatest season in the history of women's college basketball.
“I’ve never heard her say negative things to her teammates, at the Phoenix UConn, Olympics,” Huskies coach Geno Auriemma told ESPN. “But I can say to her, 'Di, that's the worst God-pass I've ever seen in my life.” If I say to someone else, they might say, “Why don't you respect me?” with her, She never accepted it herself. She already knew it was a bad pass and she needed to make it better. She wants to coach like this. ”
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