WNBA ALL-TIME LEADING SCORER TAURASI RETIRES – The league’s six-time Olympic champion brought home three championships in her 20 years with the Phoenix Mercury
Six-time Olympic champion Diana Taurasi announced her retirement from the WNBA, closing the book on one of the most decorated careers in all of basketball.
The league’s 42-year-old all-time leading scorer brought home three championships in her 20 years with the Phoenix Mercury, who drafted her first overall after she led the UConn to three collegiate titles.
The 11-times WNBA All-Star joined the league in its eighth season and quickly became one of its biggest stars, helping it grow into a TV ratings hit through her electrifying play and her prodigious three-point scoring.
Taurasi, who became the oldest to play for USA Basketball at an Olympics last summer in Paris, had long been the subject of retirement rumors and she told reporters she “just didn’t have it in me” anymore.
