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RandySF

(71,149 posts) Thu Dec 19, 2024, 11:02 PM Thursday

Opinion: Diana Taurasi is Phoenix's greatest athlete. Don't let her go quietly

Greatest athlete in Phoenix history?

Charles Barkley. Larry Fitzgerald. Michael Carbajal. Shane Doan. Randy Johnson. Curt Schilling. Luis Gonzalez. Connie Hawkins. Kurt Warner. Steve Nash. Aeneas Williams. Dick Van Arsdale. Walter Davis. Pat Tillman. … Devin Booker?

All those guys have a strong case, but there’s only one answer: It’s Diana Taurasi, and it’s too bad that it looks like she’s left us without a proper goodbye.

“If it is the last time, it felt like the first time,” she said in September after the last game of the Phoenix Mercury season.

Taurasi is the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer, 14 times All-WNBA, 11 times an All-Star, three times a league champion, twice a Finals MVP, once a regular season MVP. She has so many gold medals (six) that she probably uses them for coasters during dinner parties.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/greg-moore/2024/12/19/diana-taurasi-retire-2024-phoenix-mercury-greatest/77050493007/

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How could she be a 14 time all-WNBA player but only make 11 all-star teams.
She was 14 times one of the best 6 guards in the league, but 3 of those years she wasn't an all-star?
She was never 3rd team, so she was always one of the best 10 players in the league but missed 3 all-star games.
That seems weird.
I'd generally expect more all-star appearances because there are 24 of those players every year but only 10 first or second all-league players.
The numbers don't work for me.
BTW: When looking her up to see if there was an error in the article, I found that she's bugger than I thought she was.
6 feet, 165#. I thought she was a smaller player.

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