HER ICONIC BUN in place, Diana Taurasi sat on the sideline as Team USA took on the WNBA All-Stars, an uncomfortable yet familiar perch these past few years for arguably the greatest player in the history of women's basketball. The Wednesday night game in Las Vegas earlier this month served both as a warm-up for the 12 players who will try to lead the United States to its seventh straight Olympic gold medal and as a 25th anniversary celebration of the professional league which that success has spawned.
Taurasi, the face of both, took neither a shot nor a pass.