{"id":11773,"date":"2017-06-19T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/06\/19\/diana-taurasi-breaks-wnba-all-time-scoring-record\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T21:25:00","slug":"diana-taurasi-breaks-wnba-all-time-scoring-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/diana-taurasi-breaks-wnba-all-time-scoring-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Taurasi Breaks WNBA All-Time Scoring Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Laurel Wamsley<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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On Sunday, Diana Taurasi became the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer.<\/p>\n

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With a driving layup late in the second quarter against the Los Angeles Sparks Sunday evening, the Phoenix Mercury’s Diana Taurasi became the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer.<\/p>\n

Taurasi now stands alone atop the league’s all-time scoring table<\/a> with 7,494 points, an average of 19.9 points per game<\/a>. It took her less than 13 full seasons to set the record; she surpassed Tina Thompson, who racked up<\/a> 7,488 points over 17 seasons before retiring<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n

Thompson congratulated<\/a> Taurasi on breaking her record: “Diana is one of the best players to ever play the game and definitely one of my favorites. She has done amazing things and I am so grateful that I’ve been able to share many of those with her. I am really excited for Diana and I think she is going to blow that record out of the water.”<\/p>\n

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The courtside view as @DianaTaurasi<\/a> becomes the all-time leading scorer in #WNBA<\/a> history! pic.twitter.com\/UprV8UgdkP<\/a><\/p>\n

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Though it was a night for the record books for Taurasi, the Mercury got hammered by the Sparks, 90-59.<\/p>\n

“I was just trying to get a basket at that point, I think we were down 20,” Taurasi told ESPN. “It’s a pretty cool, special moment. You know, it’s a lot of basketball. I’ve been really lucky, played with a lot of great players, lot of great coaches.”<\/p>\n