Basketball Legend Diana Taurasi Doesn't Hold Back On WNBA Salaries

'The janitor made more than me.'

Diana Taurasi may go down as arguably the most accomplished player in the history of women's basketball, but she certainly wasn't paid like it over the course of her 20 WNBA seasons.

Taurasi officially retired this February after a two-decade long run with the Phoenix Mercury where she left the game a three-time champion, a league MVP, a five-time scoring champ and the WNBA's all-time leader in points (10,646) and three-pointers made (1,447).

Now as the star of a three-episode docuseries recounting her incredible hoops career, Taurasi was very upfront about the compensation she saw (or didn't see, really) along her professional journey.

"The f—ing janitor at the arena made more than me," Diana said in a teaser released by Amazon Prime on Wednesday.

"I'm the best player in the world and I have to go to a communist country to get paid like a capitalist," she added. "We weren't making that much money, so generational wealth was coming from going to Russia every year. Now we have to come back home and get paid nothing, to play in a harder league, in worse conditions, against the best competition in the world."

If that wasn't enough, the two-time Finals MVP also talked about the emotional toll it took being away from her family for that many months out of the year.

"One time I came back and I was like, 'Man, my parents have just gotten older and I've missed a big part of it,'" Taurasi revealed.

Diana said that she quit spending her offseasons overseas back in 2017, but knows that much of the league's players still do what they have to do to get by. Taurasi made roughly $235,000 in her final WNBA season and hopes that the league's salaries only go up amid the current CBA negotiations.