After 25 years of dominating basketball courts, from college to the WNBA to the Olympics, Diana Taurasi is finally calling it a career.
The former UConn star announced her retirement on Tuesday. Taurasi is undoubtedly one of the greatest basketball players the world has ever seen. Her stats back up that claim up.
Taurasi retires as the WNBA’s scoring leader by a wide margin, nearly 3,000 points ahead of second-place Tina Charles. She’s been part of some of the greatest teams of all-time and helped build dynasties.
Here’s a quick look at her two-plus-decade basketball career, by the numbers:
Diana Taurasi by the numbers
- Olympic gold medals … 6 (most in Olympic basketball)
- NCAA championships … 3
- WNBA championships … 3
- Career points … 10,646 (ranks first in WNBA)
- All-WNBA selections … 14 (first in WNBA)
- WNBA All-Star selections … 11 (second in WNBA)
- Career 3-pointers made … 1,447 (first in WNBA)
- Field goals made … 3,341 (first in WNBA)
- Scoring titles … 5 (first in WNBA)
- Seasons played … 20 (first in WNBA)
- Career Assists … 2,394 (fourth in WNBA)
- Steals … 518 (18th in WNBA)
When did Diana Taurasi win her last championship?
Taurasi’s latest championship came in 2014. That same year, Taurasi finished second in MVP voting, averaging 16.2 points per game.
Even into her age-42 season, Taurasi only ever averaged fewer than 14 points per game once (2019). Taurasi had offseason back surgery ahead of that season and dealt with a hamstring injury during the season as well. She played only six games that year.
