Taurasi Ponders Year Away From WNBA

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WASHINGTON -- Diana Taurasi says she's considering taking a break from the WNBA. She probably wishes that sabbatical had started before Sunday.



Taurasi, the leading scorer in the WNBA and the league's reigning Most Valuable Player, took a hard fall on her tail bone two-thirds of the way through the third quarter of her Phoenix Mercury's game against the Washington Mystics Sunday afternoon.



Taurasi landed with a sickening thud on the Verizon Center court, and was helped to the Mercury bench. She returned a minute later, but hobbled so badly on one trip up and down the floor that she was scratched for the rest of the game.



"I guess I'm going to get the rest I wanted, huh," said Taurasi through a wan smile after the game. She said she would be day-to-day as the Mercury travel to Atlanta to play the Dream Tuesday.



In an interview with FanHouse before the game, Taurasi, who had 18 points in 21 minutes Sunday, said the grind of playing year-round for seven straight years may lead her to carve out a period for rest, relaxation, and decompression.



Considering that the lion's share of her basketball salary is earned when she plays for a Turkish team during the fall and winter, Taurasi, 28, may take a summer vacation from the WNBA.

 

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