Diana Taurasi, Mercury soar into matchup with Lynx
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Diana Taurasi made history in her triumphant return from injury.
Now the Phoenix Mercury (7-7) will try to win their third consecutive game Wednesday when they play host to the Minnesota Lynx and Sylvia Fowles, who has achieved some history of her own recently. The teams will meet again on Saturday in Phoenix.
Taurasi returned from a five-week injury layoff due to a fractured sternum to score a game-high 25 points in the Mercury s 88-79 victory over visiting Los Angeles last Sunday. In the process, she became the first player in WNBA history to score 9,000 career points.
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Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry has been named to the 2020-21 All-NBA First Team, the NBA announced today. It’s the fourth First Team honor for Curry and a franchise-best seventh All-NBA Team selection (Second Team: twice and Third Team: once), surpassing Rick Barry’s mark of six All-NBA Team selections.
Curry earned First Team honors after finishing the season as the NBA’s scoring leader for the second time in his career, averaging 32.0 points on 48.2 percent from the field, 42.1 percent from three-point range and 91.6 percent from the line, adding 5.8 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 1.22 steals in 34.2 minutes over 63 games. At 33 years old, Curry became the oldest scoring champion since Michael Jordan averaged 28.7 points per game in 1997-98 at the age of 35. He was a finalist for the NBA’s 2020-21 Kia Most Valuable Player Award and named Western Conference Player of the Month in both April and May.