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WNBA legend Diana Taurasi played her whole 20-year career with the Phoenix MercuryCredit: Getty 3<\/p>\n Fans called out the 43-year-old for comparing her salary to a janitor’s yearly earnings during a preview of Prime Video’s documentary, titled TaurasiCredit: Prime Video<\/p>\n Prime Video released a preview of a documentary on Taurasi.<\/p>\n The doc shows how the now-retired 43-year-old WNBA<\/a> legend became one of the best female basketball<\/a> players of all time.<\/p>\n But during a sequence, Taurasi spoke about her time playing professional basketball in Russia and Turkey during the prime of her career.<\/p>\n “We weren’t making that much money, so generational wealth was coming from going to Russia every year. Now we have to come back home and get paid nothing to play in a harder league in worse conditions against the best competition in the world,” she said.<\/p>\n “The f***ing janitor in the arena made more than me.”<\/p>\n Fans weren’t pleased with the janitor comment from Taurasi.<\/p>\n It’s worth noting that Taurasi’s final annual salary with the Phoenix Mercury was $234,000, as fans made sure to question her grievance over her WNBA paycheck.<\/p>\n “”…the f***ing janitor…” What an entitled s***head,” one wrote.<\/p>\n “At no point did the janitor make more than Diana Taurasi, why does she does she have to disrespect that person?” another asked.<\/p>\n “Her salary was $234k, not including Nike and BodyArmor endorsements. The Janitor does not make what she makes,” a third said.<\/p>\n WNBA commissioner sends powerful Caitlin Clark message amid pay dispute controversy<\/p>\n “Just an awful look,” a fourth added.<\/p>\n Taurasi wasn’t the only big WNBA star to take her talents overseas during her domestic offseason.<\/p>\n Brittney Griner<\/a> also played overseas, but she was detained in a Russian prison<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n Taurasi earned $115,000 for four seasons before eventually earning almost a quarter of a million dollars annually.<\/p>\n![\"Screenshot\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c8581e70-a72a-4309-8b6e-6428313cd49e.jpg\")
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