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Diana Taurasi, WNBA’s scoring leader at all times, has an upcoming three -part documents about her famous basketball career, “Taurasi.”
Prime Video’s teaser of the documents has already become viral.
Taurasi has always been honest on and off the field, and the WNBA icon reflected on having to play abroad in the league’s season to supplement her income. In a clip from the series, Taurasi complained in the first place.
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Phoenix Mercury-Guard Diana Taurasi celebrates after a 3-point basket against La Sparks in the second half in Crypto.com Arena. (Kirby Lee/Imag- Pictures)
“I’m the best player in the world and I have to go to a communist country to get paid as a capitalist,” Taurasi said, referring to his time traveling to Russia.
“F — ing-Guard champion at the arena made more than me.”
Taurasi shared a similar mood in 2019 on a 30 for 30 podcast, “The Spy Who signed me.”
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“Fifty -five thousand?” She said when asked about her wnba salary. “That’s what I have to do? That’s what I have to do after four years of playing on the most prestigious basketball college? That’s what I’m doing? I mean, the waving masters will do more than me. The guy who takes the floor out and puts it back … he will do more than me.”
Taurasis Rookie salary with Phoenix Mercury in 2004, after her tenure to Uconn was $ 42,000. Over the years, this salary is trending upwards, which eventually led to a two-year-old, $ 469,872 deal in February 2023.
Taurasi earned about $ 1.38 million in WNBA during his 20-year career in the league. She also sat out the 2015 season because her Russian Premier League team, Ummc Ekaterinburg, paid her not to play in WNBA.
Taurasi explained the toll for having to play abroad.
“Once I came back and I was like ‘man, my parents have just grown older and I have missed a great deal of it.’ We didn’t make that much money, so generational wealth came from going to Russia every year, ”she said.
Connecticuts Diana Taurasi, right, fights past Tennessee’s Kara Lawson as Connecticut Huskies defeated Tennessee 79-56 in NCAA women’s semi-finals at Alamodome in San Antonio 29 March 2002. (IMagn)
“Now we have to come home and get paid nothing to play in a tougher league, under worse relationships, against the best competition in the world.”
WNBA players are still traveling abroad to play internationally during the season, although the new 3-to-3 unmatched league, started by stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier, debuted earlier this year to help keep women in the US
Based on the collective negotiation agreement in 2020 for WNBA, the minimum wage for a player has risen from $ 57,000 that year to $ 66,079 in 2025, according to Spotrac. It will continue to rise to $ 68,061 in 2026 and $ 70,103 in 2027.
But the current CBA expires October 31, 2025, after WNBPA’s decision to opt out instead of letting it run through the 2027 season.
Diana Taurasi from Phoenix Mercury at Climate Pant Arena June 4, 2024 in Seattle. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
WNBA players have been vocal with their financial requirements, recently wearing “Pay us what you owe us” T-shirts before the 2025 WNBA All-Star game in Indianapolis.
If a new agreement is not achieved at the beginning of the 2026 campaign, there may be a lockout.
