WNBA champion Diana Taurasi continues to mull possible return next season: 'I think about it every day'

Diana Taurasi is 1 of the top hoops players of her generation. But the 20-year WNBA seasoned has yet to marque a determination astir her hoops future.

If Taurasi decides to measurement distant from the WNBA, she volition permission with 3 league championships, a brace of WNBA Finals MVP trophies and 11 All-Star appearances. She besides won 3 NCAA Division I titles during her storied tally with the UConn Huskies.

This week, the aboriginal Hall of Famer said she'll instrumentality immoderate clip earlier deciding if she'll play different season.

"I don’t instrumentality status lightly. I cognize the infinitesimal I accidental it oregon denote it, whether it’s, you know, successful a period oregon 2 months, I’m going to mean it," Taurasi told The Associated Press. "I speech to (wife) Penny (Taylor) and the Mercury, truthful I’m inactive successful the thought process."

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Phoenix Mercury defender Diana Taurasi catches a walk during warmups Sept. 19, 2024, astatine Footprint Center successful Phoenix. (Owen Ziliak/The Republic/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Taurasi, who has spent her full WNBA career with the Phoenix Mercury, past played successful precocious September. The Minnesota Lynx eliminated the Mercury from the playoffs Sept. 25. 

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"I person not taken (retirement) lightly. I deliberation astir it each day. You know, I’m inactive successful heavy thought astir it. I privation to marque the close decision, you know, and I’m conscionable taking my clip a small bit," Taurasi said. "And, you know, sometimes erstwhile the play ends, the past happening you privation to deliberation astir is the adjacent season."

Phoenix Mercury defender Diana Taurasi (3) smiles aft hitting a 3-pointer Sept. 19, 2024, astatine Footprint Center successful Phoenix. (Owen Ziliak/The Republic/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Taurasi likes the moves the squad made past offseason, adding Natasha Cloud and Kahleah Copper, which she said made the squad into a imaginable title contender. In July, the Mercury unveiled a $100 cardinal grooming center. The state-of-the-art analyzable features 2 hoops courts named aft Taurasi.

"I bash deliberation with the additions (on court) we made and successful the beforehand office, we’ll beryllium determination for a agelong time," she said. "You cognize those are my sisters. I’ve gone done a batch with them. So, you know, I’ll chat with them. It’s a batch to process the play arsenic a whole."

The Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi celebrates aft scoring her 10,000th vocation constituent during the 2nd fractional of a crippled against the Atlanta Dream Aug. 3, 2023, successful Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Whenever she does determine to retire, Taurasi is intrigued by the thought of getting progressive with ownership of a team.

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"I decidedly emotion the thought of being capable to person a presumption where, obviously, you power a team," she said. "But much than that, conscionable being astir (owner) Mat (Ishbia) for a small bit, conscionable seeing however he’s influenced this full metropolis and alteration the vigor of what an proprietor tin bash to truly the outlook of a city, the feeling of a city. The things to which he’s done with the team, it’s truly the adjacent step, I think, for pistillate athletes."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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