Diana Taurasi rips WNBA salaries compared to overseas pay during her time playing: 'Janitor made more'

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Diana Taurasi, the WNBA’s all-time scoring leader, has an upcoming three-part docuseries about her illustrious basketball career, "Taurasi."

Prime Video’s teaser of the docuseries has already gone viral. 

Taurasi has always been candid on and off the court, and the WNBA icon reflected on having to play overseas during the league’s offseason to supplement her income. In a clip from the series, Taurasi lamented having to do it in the first place. 

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Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi celebrates after a 3-point basket against the LA Sparks in the second half at Crypto.com Arena. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

"I’m the best player in the world, and I have to go to a communist country to get paid like a capitalist," Taurasi said, alluding to her time traveling to Russia. 

"The f---ing janitor at the arena made more than me."

Taurasi shared a similar sentiment in 2019 on a 30 for 30 podcast, "The Spy Who Signed Me."

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"Forty-five thousand?" she said when asked about her WNBA salary. "That’s what I’m going to make? That’s what I’m going to make after four years of playing at the most prestigious basketball college? That’s what I’m going to make? I mean, the janitors are going to make more than me. The guy who takes the floor out and puts it back … he’s going to be making more than me."

Taurasi’s rookie salary with the Phoenix Mercury in 2004 after her tenure at UConn was $42,000. Over the years, that salary trended upward, ultimately leading to a