Diana Taurasi jokes that she “signed a tombstone” with a Phoenix Mercury contract extension through 2020, when she will turn 38 years old.
“Puts me to my graveyard,” she quipped before Sunday’s loss at the New York Liberty.
Hold the eulogy. Taurasi is still one of the world’s best players.
She scored 37 points in a game last week — her most in the WNBA since 2010.
Including Sunday, she committed zero turnovers in back-to-back games for the first time in her career (420 WNBA games, including regular season and playoffs).
She’s shooting 56 percent from the field in her last three games after a 1-for-11 clunker in the opener May 14.