{"id":448085,"date":"2026-02-01T23:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448085\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:35:09","slug":"why-mercurys-taurasi-is-a-hall-of-famer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448085\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mercury&#8217;s Taurasi Is A Hall Of Famer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/mercury\/phoenix-diana-taurasi-makes-history-in-significant-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Taurasi <\/a> started her WNBA journey in 2004, and after a lengthy career, she announced her retirement. Taurasi was drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix_mercury\/17278\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a>, and she played with them for her entire career.  <\/p>\n<p>During that time, she accomplished many things. She won three championships, she won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) and she won Finals MVP as well. She is the WNBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer, as she had 10,646 points at the end of her career. Then, she was one of the players who representedthe Mercury in the All-Star Game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diana Taurasi started her WNBA journey in 2004, and after a lengthy career, she announced her retirement. Taurasi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-448085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}