Mercury retire Taurasi's No. 3 on 'amazing' night
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Mercury retire Taurasi's No. 3 on 'amazing' night
After the Phoenix Mercury's 88-85 loss to the Portland Fire on Sunday night, Diana Taurasi held court, detailing a Hall of Fame career that now includes a jersey retirement ceremony that felt "like the end and the beginning of so many things in my life."
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Diana Taurasi. | Getty Images A little more than three years ago, Diana Taurasi became the first player to score 10,000 points in her WNBA career, reaching the milestone in epic DT fashion. The catch-and-shoot wing 3-pointer that pushed her over the 10,000-point barrier were three of the 42 points she scored in the Phoenix Mercury win, a new regular-season scoring high at 41 years old. Now, three years later, her No. 3 is going up into rafters, as the Mercury will retire her jersey and induct...
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Diana Taurasi's No. 3 Retired as Phoenix Mercury Honor WNBA Legend
The Phoenix Mercury retired Diana Taurasi's No. 3 jersey Sunday, adding the WNBA legend and all-time leading scorer to their Ring of Honor.
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Mercury Retire Diana Taurasi No. 3 Jersey
The Phoenix Mercury retired Diana Taurasi's No. 3 jersey in a ceremony before their game against the Portland Fire on Sunday. "Today feels different," Taurasi said. "When your number goes up there, you can't use it anymore. It's done. So, if there was any little competitiveness still in me, I think today it goes up in the rafters with the number, and it feels really good to know that." Taurasi retired on February 25, 2025 after 20 years in the WNBA, all with the Mercury. She remains the WNBA'...
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Sunday night is a special night for Diana Taurasi. The Phoenix Mercury are officially retiring Taurasi's No. 3 jersey on Sunday evening, in a nationally televised game on ESPN. Taurasi, the WNBA's all-time leading scorer, is hoping to join the franchise's ownership group soon, too. "Ownership is ...
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PHOENIX — The desert heat eclipsed 100 degrees Sunday afternoon, but it didn’t stop the crowds of fans from gathering outside of Mortgage Matchup Center for Diana Taurasi. Most donned her jersey in anticipation of the halftime ceremony where the Phoenix Mercury would retire Taurasi’s No. 3, which the guard wore throughout her storied WNBA career. “Today feels different,” Taurasi said before the Mercury’s game against the Portland Fire. “When your number goes up there, you can’t use it anymore. I
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The Mercury’s game against Fire doubled as Diana Taurasi’s Ring of Honor induction, where her No. 3 jersey was retired and hung in the rafters.
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There's certainly a good case to be made that Diana Taurasi is the best player in WNBA history. For Phoenix Mercury fans, that case is already closed: She's undeniably the G.O.A.T. Taurasi was inducted into the Mercury Ring of Honor on Sunday at halftime of a game between the Mercury and Portland Fire, with the franchise retiring her No. 3 jersey and celebrating a superstar who has become synonymous with basketball in Arizona for more than two decades.
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From trash talking to elite leadership, teammates reveal the true nature of WNBA legend Diana Taurasi ahead of her Mercury’s Ring of Honor night.
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