Diana Taurasi has not said for certain whether this year is her last in the WNBA, but this final chapter for the league’s all-time leading scorer got a new wrinkle this week when Dan Le Batard announced that his company Meadowlark Media followed Taurasi throughout 2024.
Discussing Taurasi’s potential final WNBA game, a road loss in Game 2 of a first-round series against the Minnesota Lynx, Le Batard paid tribute to Taurasi’s career and gave an overview of the ongoing production of a doc on Taurasi.
“Meadowlark Media has been following her around all season and doing a documentary on her,” Le Batard revealed on The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz. “And we’re going to tell that story, because the root of that kind of greatness are worth exploring.”
A Taurasi documentary from Meadowlark, in partnership with Skydance Sports, was originally announced in early 2022.
This year, Taurasi won a record sixth gold medal and averaged 15 points per game while playing in 36 of 40 regular season games in the WNBA. While it is the final year of her contract with the Phoenix Mercury, Taurasi has not formally announced what her future will look like.
The team created a social media campaign entitled “If This Is It” ahead of the final two home games of the season and put together a tribute package for after the final game.
Taurasi gave a speech postgame but did not reveal her future, insisting she would make a final decision after Phoenix was eliminated from the playoffs.
Now that time has come. Because the doc was announced years ago, production picking up in 2024 does not necessarily confirm her retirement. However, it wouldn’t be a surprise if Meadowlark followed Taurasi more closely this year because it had an inclination this was her last dance.
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