In recent years the question had been lobbed at Diana Taurasi in a multitude of ways and wordings: When was she going to step away from basketball? Playing into her 40s, when was she going to finally hang up her shoes?
As she had in her play during a two-and-a-half-decade career in college and professional basketball, she answered these questions with a wit and edge about her. She would when she was ready, and the rest of the world would know sometime thereafter.
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At the Olympics this summer, where she had made her sixth Team USA roster, she once again was asked about an impending retirement. “Only a woman would have
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