{"id":34384,"date":"2025-02-25T23:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/basketball-titan-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons-and-six-olympic-golds\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T23:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:52:03","slug":"basketball-titan-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons-and-six-olympic-golds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/basketball-titan-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons-and-six-olympic-golds\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball titan Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons and six Olympic golds"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Taurasi, 42, walks away as WNBA\u2019s all-time scoring leader<\/li>\n<li>Fiery point guard played 20 WNBA seasons with Phoenix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Diana Taurasi is retiring after 20 seasons, ending one of the greatest careers in basketball history.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA\u2019s career scoring leader and a three-time league champion, Taurasi announced her retirement on Wednesday in an interview with Time magazine. The Phoenix Mercury \u2013 the only WNBA team she played for \u2013 also confirmed her decision.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/25\/diana-taurasi-retires-basketball-legend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taurasi, 42, walks away as WNBA\u2019s all-time scoring leader Fiery point guard played 20 WNBA seasons with Phoenix Diana Taurasi is retiring after 20 seasons, ending one of the greatest careers in basketball history. The WNBA\u2019s career scoring leader and a three-time league champion, Taurasi announced her retirement on Wednesday in an interview with Time &#8230; <a title=\"Basketball titan Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons and six Olympic golds\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/basketball-titan-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons-and-six-olympic-golds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Basketball titan Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons and six Olympic golds\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}