{"id":27894,"date":"2025-02-28T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/?p=27894"},"modified":"2025-03-25T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:47:13","slug":"three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Diana Taurasi has announced her retirement after playing in the WNBA for 20 seasons. The three time WNBA champion is officially ending her career as one of the greats of the WNBA.<br>\n<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She announced the big news on Wednesday in an exclusive interview with Time Magazine.<br>\n<br> <br>Diana Taurasi told Time, \u201cMentally and physically, I\u2019m just full,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s probably the best way I can describe it. I\u2019m full and I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phoenix Mercury, her former WNBA team also confirmed her retirement.<br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Taurasi has announced her retirement after playing in the WNBA for 20 seasons. The three time WNBA champion is officially ending her career as one of the greats of the WNBA. She announced the big news on Wednesday in an exclusive interview with Time Magazine. Diana Taurasi told Time, \u201cMentally and physically, I\u2019m just full,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s probably the best way I can describe it. I\u2019m full and I\u2019m happy.\u201d Phoenix Mercury, her former WNBA team also confirmed her retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WNBA Legend Diana Taurasi is retiring from the WNBA after 20 amazing seasons. Her team also confirmed her decision.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons - Matchplug Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WNBA Legend Diana Taurasi is retiring from the WNBA after 20 amazing seasons. Her team also confirmed her decision.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Matchplug Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-28T09:47:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-25T00:47:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-28T09:47:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-25T00:47:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/\"},\"wordCount\":91,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Basketball\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/\",\"name\":\"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons - Matchplug Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-28T09:47:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-25T00:47:13+00:00\",\"description\":\"WNBA Legend Diana Taurasi is retiring from the WNBA after 20 amazing seasons. Her team also confirmed her decision.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Matchplug Blog\",\"description\":\"Matchplug is the best soccer prediction site connecting bettors with winning tips. We are spot on in our Soccer predictions, premier league predictions, Bet9ja prediction, matched betting and premier betting.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Matchplug Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-mp_logo_2.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-mp_logo_2.png\",\"width\":389,\"height\":218,\"caption\":\"Matchplug Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons - Matchplug Blog","description":"WNBA Legend Diana Taurasi is retiring from the WNBA after 20 amazing seasons. Her team also confirmed her decision.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons - Matchplug Blog","og_description":"WNBA Legend Diana Taurasi is retiring from the WNBA after 20 amazing seasons. Her team also confirmed her decision.","og_url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/","og_site_name":"Matchplug Blog","article_published_time":"2025-02-28T09:47:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-03-25T00:47:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons","datePublished":"2025-02-28T09:47:54+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-25T00:47:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/"},"wordCount":91,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png","articleSection":["Basketball","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/","name":"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons - Matchplug Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png","datePublished":"2025-02-28T09:47:54+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-25T00:47:13+00:00","description":"WNBA Legend Diana Taurasi is retiring from the WNBA after 20 amazing seasons. Her team also confirmed her decision.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png","width":600,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/three-time-wnba-champion-diana-taurasi-retires-after-20-seasons\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi retires after 20 seasons"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/","name":"Matchplug Blog","description":"Matchplug is the best soccer prediction site connecting bettors with winning tips. We are spot on in our Soccer predictions, premier league predictions, Bet9ja prediction, matched betting and premier betting.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Matchplug Blog","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-mp_logo_2.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-mp_logo_2.png","width":389,"height":218,"caption":"Matchplug Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/author\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wnba-champion-diana-tausari-retires-after-20-seasons.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29752,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894\/revisions\/29752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}