Phoenix Mercury legend Diana Taurasi retired from her professional basketball career Tuesday and other icons showed her support online and offline.

Diana Taurasi, one of the greatest basketball players in WNBA history, and voted "greatest of all time" by the league's fans, ...

As for Bird's reference to their time in Russia together, they drove UMMC Ekaterinburg to three straight Russian League championship wins.

Taurasi played for the Mercury every year since 2004 aside from one season (2015) during which her Russian Premier League team (UMMC Ekaterinburg) paid Taurasi to not lace up for Phoenix that season.