WNBA thread… 28.5 ain’t your pay cut

[Starman]

From other sources the WNBA wants to expand by one team each year until 2028, starting with the Golden State Valkyries this year.

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[BTExpress]

Nice player. Nice career. How she "changed the game" must have slipped by me, however.

 

[MileHigh]

Nice player. Nice career. How she "changed the game" must have slipped by me, however.

Lllll ohhhh forking lllll.

 

[HanSenSE]

Nice player. Nice career. How she "changed the game" must have slipped by me, however.

Me too.

 

[Alma]

Nice player. Nice career. How she "changed the game" must have slipped by me, however.

She sat out a season when a team from Russia paid her $1.5 million not to play in the WNBA.

Otherwise, she was the WNBA's Kobe. Similar game, similar mindset.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

"Nice player. Nice career."


• ⁠First WNBA player with 10,000 points

• ⁠3× WNBA champion (2007, 2009, 2014)

• ⁠2× WNBA Finals MVP (2009, 2014)

• ⁠WNBA MVP (2009)

• ⁠11× WNBA All-Star (2005–2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2024)

• ⁠10× All-WNBA First Team (2004, 2006–2011, 2013, 2014, 2018)

• ⁠4× All-WNBA Second Team (2005, 2016, 2017, 2020)

• ⁠WNBA Rookie of the Year (2004)

• ⁠5× WNBA scoring champion (2006, 2008–2011)

• ⁠WNBA ashists leader (2014)

• ⁠6× WNBA Peak Performer (2006, 2007, 2009–2011, 2014)

• ⁠WNBA 15th Anniversary Team (2011)

• ⁠WNBA 20th Anniversary Team (2016)

• ⁠WNBA 25th Anniversary Team (2021)

• ⁠6× EuroLeague champion (2007–2010, 2013, 2016)

• ⁠7× Russian National League champion (2007, 2008, 2013–2017)

• ⁠3× Russian Cup winner (2013–2014, 2017)

• ⁠3× Russian League Player of the Year (2007, 2008, 2009)

• ⁠Turkish National League champion (2011)

• ⁠Turkish Cup winner (2012)

• ⁠3× NCAA champion (2002–2004)

• ⁠2× NCAA Tournament MOP (2003, 2004)

• ⁠Wade Trophy (2003)

• ⁠2× Honda Sports Award (2003, 2004)

• ⁠2× Naismith College Player of the Year (2003, 2004)

• ⁠USBWA Women's National Player of the Year (2003)

• ⁠AP College Player of the Year (2003)

• ⁠2× Nancy Lieberman Award (2003, 2004)

• ⁠2× Big East Player of the Year (2003, 2004)

• ⁠2x First-team All-American – AP (2003, 2004)

• ⁠3x Kodak All-American (2002–2004)

• ⁠2x All-American –USBWA (2003, 2004)

• ⁠Second-team All-American – AP (2002)

• ⁠3x First-team All-Big East (2002–2004)

• ⁠Big East women's basketball tournament MOP (2001)

• ⁠Big East All-Freshman Team (2001)

• ⁠4× USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year (2006, 2010, 2012, 2016)

• ⁠6x Gold Olympian

• ⁠3x Gold FIBA World Champion

• ⁠1x Bronze FIBA World Champion

 

[Neutral Corner]

Nice list of accomplishments. Think she has a chance to get into the WNBA Hall of Fame?

 

[swingline]

Compiler.

 

[dixiehack]

So any new accomplishments?

 

[poindexter]

If a poster here can ship on Roberta Flack's career in Flack's RIP thread, then I can read that list of accomplishments and say on her retirement that Diana Taurasi never moved the needle for me one iota.

 

[BTExpress]

All I asked is how she "changed the game." She's a Hall of Famer. So are more than 450 others, only a few of whom changed the game.