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Diana Tauuras, the scorer leader of all the time of the WNBA, has an upcoming three -part docuserie about her illustrious basketball career, “Tauurasi”.
The teaser of Prime Video Docuseries has already gone viral.
Taurasi has always been sincere on and off the court, and the WNBA icon reflected on having to play abroad during the low season of the League to complement its income. In a series of the series, Tauuras lamented having to do it first.
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Phoenix Mercury Guard, Diana Tauurasi, celebrates after a 3 -point basket against the Sparks in the second half on Crypto.com Arena. (Kirby Lee/Imagn images)
“I am the best player in the world, and I have to go to a communist country to pay me as a capitalist,” said Taurasi, referring to his time traveling to Russia.
“The bitch’s janitor in the sand did more than me.”
Taurasi shared a similar feeling in 2019 in a podcast 30 for 30, “the spy that signed me.”
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“Forty -five thousand?” He said when asked about his WNBA salary. “Is that what I’m going to do? That is what I’m going to do after four years of playing at the most prestigious basketball University? That is what I’m going to do? I mean, the janitors are going to do more than me. The guy who takes out the floor and returns it … is going to do more than me.”
Tauurai’s rookie salary with Phoenix Mercury in 2004 after his mandate in UConn was $ 42,000. Over the years, that rise trend salary, which finally led to a two -year agreement and $ 469,872 in February 2023.
Taurasi won around $ 1.38 million in the WNBA during his 20 years of career in the league. He also sat down in the 2015 season because his Russian Premier League team, Ummc Ekaterinburg, paid him not to play at the WNBA.
Taurasi explained the cost of having to play abroad.
“Once I returned, and I thought: ‘Man, my parents have become older and I have lost a large part of that.’ We were not earning so much money, so generational wealth came from going to Russia every year,” he said.
Diana Tauurasi of Connecticut, on the right, fights for Kara Lawson of Tennessee when the Connecticut huskies defeated Tennessee 79-56 in the female semifinals of the NCAA in the Alamodome in San Antonio on March 29, 2002. (IMAGN)
“Now, we have to return home and receive anything to play in a tougher league, in worse conditions, against the best competition in the world.”
The WNBA players still travel abroad to play internationally during the low season, although the new unparalleled 3 against 3, started by the stars Breanna Stewart and Napheaes Collier, debuted earlier this year to help keep women in the United States.
According to collective bargaining agreement 2020 for WNBA, the minimum wage for a player has increased from $ 57,000 that year to $ 66,079 in 2025, according to Spotrac. Will continue to increase to $ 68,061 in 2026 and $ 70,103 in 2027.
But the current CBA expires on October 31, 2025, after the WNBPA decision to choose not to participate instead of letting it be executed during the 2027 season.
Diana Taurasi del Phoenix Mercury in Climate Pledge Arena on June 4, 2024 in Seattle. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
WNBA players have been vowels with their financial demands, recently wearing t -shirts “pay us what you owe” before the 2025 WNBA stars game in Indianapolis.
If a new agreement is not reached at the beginning of the 2026 campaign, there could be a blockade.
