Diana Taurasi - Primetime Passer (No Looks)

Diana Taurasi. GOAT. 3x WNBA Champion. 2x WNBA Finals MVP. 2009 WNBA MVP. The WNBA’s ALL-TIME LEADING SCORER.
9x WNBA All-Star. 10x All-WNBA First Team. 3x All-WNBA Second Team. In 2011, named one of the WNBA’s Top 15 Player of All Time. In 2016, named one of the WNBA’s Top 20 @ 20. 2004 WNBA Rookie of the Year. 5x WNBA scoring champion (would’ve been 6 in 6 years were it not for the also legendary Lauren Jackson (and Seimone Augustus) in 2007). Finished 2013 with the most assists (tied with Lindsey Whalen). 2014’s WNBA assist leader (tied with Courtney Vandersloot for assists per game). 4x Olympic Gold medalist (2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London, 2016 Rio). 3x FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup Gold medalist (2010 Czech Republic, 2014 Turkey, 2018 Spain).
4x USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year. 6x Euroleague champion. 7x Russian National League champion. 3x Russian Cup winner. 3x Russian League Player of the Year (Спасиб). 2011 Turkish National League champion. 2012 Turkish Cup winner.
3x NCAA champion. Back to back NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player. One is one of only 9 player who have won the Honda Sports Award for basketball multiple times. She is also currently FOURTH on the WNBA All-Time career assist list.

There’s a reason Taurasi approached the late great Kobe Bryant and claimed she was the “White Mamba” and he agreed. Famously, Kobe replied “yes, you are - you’ve got every bit the temperament.” The White Mamba has worked and continues to work on every part of her game, approaching it with a level that not many, not even professional athletes, attack it with. Her hunger to get better was furthered along by Bryant: “he made it possible to play with an edge that was borderline crazy.” She has won everything there is to win, and it’s not hard to see that she still wants so much more.

Diana’s a visionary. Her vision is scary. She could ruin the league with just her passing. So let’s just revel and bask in the fact that she’s out there to bust everyone’s ass. This video is meant to highlight her passing. It’s VERY FAR from comprehensive, but I tried to highlight how often she’ll look a player off before dropping an inch perfect pass right in stride. It truly is art.

PS. The last play, it’s there for a reason.

PPS.
Can we talk for a second about 2009 Taurasi? Scoring title, regular season MVP, WNBA championship, Finals MVP. She is only one of two players to ever to that, the other being Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, but if you add her overseas career to that, DT3 won FOUR consecutive Euroleague championships from 2007 - 2010, and was named Final Four MVP in 2009 and 2010.

Props to you if you read the first line of the PPS in Zach Lowe’s voice. Extra props to you if you are familiar with “Спасиб” and the story Sue Bird told on Zach’s podcast.

Link to the Kobe quote:
https://www.yesnetwork.com/news/taura...

Diana’s quote from Kobe, Gigi, and Gigi’s basketball team’s memorial:
https://www.ksdk.com/article/sports/w...

The clip against the Liberty is from Lynda Walsh
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