Leading scorer in WNBA history since 2017 before being voted the greatest player in league history in 2021, Diana Taurasi has already had a profound impact on his sport. It has just added a new stone to its superb edifice.
The Phoenix Mercury star scored 42 points against the Atlanta Dream, surpassing the symbolic mark of 10,000 career points. She only needed 18 units for that, and it was on an award-winning basket that she achieved this feat.
“It’s nice because we won the game”, she commented. “I felt good and my teammates were looking for me. Sometimes it comes in because it’s our day. Today was mine. »
Like Michael Jordan…
More anecdotally, though, also becomes the oldest player to score 40 points, far ahead
The five-time Olympic champion is alone in her kingdom as the second-highest scorer in WNBA history, Tina Thompson, is at 7,488 points. Above all, she has not played for ten years. The closest active player, Tina Charles, is 7115 units, almost 3000 points behind…
