Diana Lurena Taurasi (born June 11, 1982 in Chino, California), is a standout agent basketball player who plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Taurasi's father (the previous agency football (soccer) goalkeeper) is a indigen of Italy, while her mother is from either Argentina.

Career
When getting the notable high school career, Taurasi began to play for the University of Connecticut (UConn) women's basketball team when you took a 2000-2001 season. She helped her team win tierce straight NCAA championships, the previous of these coming in the 2003-2004 season. Around Connecticut, Taurasi was admired by many fans. Taurasi won a 2003 Naismith Award and College Player of the Season Awards.

Inside April 2004, Taurasi was the number 1 pick in the WNBA Draft to the Phoenix Mercury, a team that got earned a 1st choice at a draft by using an 8-26 won-loss record in the 2003 season. Before long when, she began to build the supportive fan base within Phoenix as she had inside Connecticut. She experienced Twenty-six points & led a Mercury to an 84-76 triumph above a Seattle Storm in her debut as a WNBA player.

Around her total one season as a WNBA streaming video player, Taurasi led her team past a number of triumph that a Mercury posted a year prior to, & she ranked among a league's leaders around the total of categories.

Taurasi wears total Trinity, a total she bore at UConn, sustaining a Mercury. Her jersey has replaced Michele Timms' number Septenary jersey when a right-selling Mercury jersey.

In June 19, 2004, she was selected to represent the United States with the US women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. That nighttime, she scored Xxii points against fellow national team member Lisa Leslie and the Los Angeles Sparks, but may not end the 76-74 Mercury kill. Taurasi would aid a national team win a Olympic gold medal in 2004.

Inside September 2004, she was awarded with a WNBA Rookie of the Year Award.