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Diana Taurasi, the leader of all WNBA, has a next three-part documentation on her illustrious basketball career, “Taurasi”.
The video teaser of the video has already become viral.
Taurasi has always been frank on and off the field, and the WNBA icon has thought about the duty to play abroad during the off -season of the League to complete its income. In a clip in the series, Taurasi deplored to do so in the first place.
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Phoenix Mercury Diana Taurasi goalkeeper famous after a 3 -point basket against the Sparks of the second period in Crypto.com Arena. (Images Kirby Lee / Imagn)
“I am the best player in the world, and I have to go to a communist country to be paid like a capitalist,” said Taurasi, alluding to his time going to Russia.
“The concierge F — ING in the arena has done more than me.”
Taurasi shared a similar feeling in 2019 on a podcast 30 for 30, “The Spy Who has signed”.
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“Forty-five thousand?” She said when he asked her questions about her WNBA salary. “This is what I’m going to do? This is what I’m going to do after four years to play at the most prestigious basketball college? Is that what I am going to do? I mean, the concierges will do more than me. The guy who takes out the ground and puts it back … He’s going to do more than me.”
The Taurasi recruit salary with the Phoenix Mercury in 2004 after his mandate in Uconn was $ 42,000. Over the years, this salary tends to increase, which has finally led to an agreement of $ 469,872 over two years in February 2023.
Taurasi made around 1.38 million dollars in the WNBA during his 20 -year career in the League. She also withdrew the 2015 season because her Russian Premier League team, Ummc Ekaterinburg, paid her not to play in the WNBA.
Taurasi explained the toll to have to play abroad.
“Once, I came back and I said to myself:” guy, my parents have just aged, and I missed a large part. “We don’t make as much money, so generational wealth came from Russia every year,” she said.
Diana Taurasi du Connecticut, on the right, fights against Kara Lawson from Tennessee while the Connecticut Huskies beat Tennessee 79-56 in the NCAA female semi-finals at Alamodom in San Antonio on March 29, 2002. (Imagn)
“Now we have to go home and be paid for nothing to play in a more difficult league, in worse conditions, against the best competition in the world.”
WNBA players are still moving abroad to play internationally during the offseason, although the new Invalid 3 League against 3, started with stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier, made its debut this year to help keep women in the United States
Based on the 2020 collective agreement for WNBA, the minimum wage for a player went from $ 57,000 that year to $ 66,079 in 2025, according to Spotrac. He will continue to increase $ 68,061 in 2026 and $ 703 in 2027.
But the current ACB expires on October 31, 2025, after the WNBPA decision to withdraw instead of letting it pass the 2027 season.
Diana Taurasi du Phoenix Mercury at Climate Pledge Arena on June 4, 2024, in Seattle. (Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
WNBA players were vocals with their financial requests, recently carrying T-shirts “US countries What You Dose” before the All-Star match of the WNBA 2025 in Indianapolis.
If a new agreement is not concluded at the start of the 2026 campaign, there could be a lockout.
