Court Case

Diana Taurasi definitely needed a summer vacation. Before she jetted across the pond to London as a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team, the 30-year-old point guard was hurt, tired, and producing relatively zilch on the basketball court as team captain of the Phoenix Mercury. Once she got to...

By Benjamin Leatherman

August 16, 2012

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Diana Taurasi definitely needed a summer vacation. Before she jetted across the pond to London as a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team, the 30-year-old point guard was hurt, tired, and producing relatively zilch on the basketball court as team captain of the Phoenix Mercury.

Once she got to the Olympics, however, Taurasi turned things around, racking up both buckets and rebounds and helping her squad win its fifth-straight gold medal. Here’s hoping she saved some juice for the remainder of the WNBA season, as the Mercury (currently near the bottom of the standings) will need it if they hope to pull off the near-impossible and secure an unlikely playoff berth.

To do so Taurasi and company will need to win pretty much every game from here on out, starting with their battle against the top-ranked San Antonio Silver Stars.

Sun., Aug. 19, 3 p.m., 2012

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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music, and nightlife. He began writing for New Times in 2003 and joined the staff full-time in 2005. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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