Here’s the women’s hoops news from the past week:
Celebrating Diana Taurasi…and just Diana Taurasi
Reflecting on scoring more than 10,000 points, Diana Taurasi said, “I think it was a great celebration of basketball, men’s or women’s.”
She’s correct. The evening was the seeming improbability of basketball at its best. The 41-year-old Taurasi fired off a regular-season career-high 42-point salvo in the game in which she passed 10,000 points, providing a thrill for Phoenix fans in an otherwise mostly disappointing Mercury season.
As such, it requires no validation or legitimation through comparison to men’s basketball. (And neither did Alyssa Thomas’ triple-double accomplishment.)
I wish they could acknowledge an achievement without mentioning the nba. just once. pls.
— Lexie Brown (@Lexiebrown) August 4, 2023
if DT would have broke the scoring record first, would they have posted the same graphic when LBJ broke it?
(it’s a cute post… just asking the question ♀️) https://t.co/CTvDdmLjb3
— Natalie Achonwa (@NatAchon) August 4, 2023
Let’s allow women’s basketball players to be the center of their history-making and barrier-breaking stories.
Skylar Diggins-Smith shares frustration with Mercury
Elsewhere in Phoenix, Skylar…
