Back to the Illinois State Redbirds Newsfeed

Mercury's Diana Taurasi first in WNBA to reach 10,000 points

PHOENIX -- Diana Taurasi made history yet again Thursday.

The Phoenix Mercury star became the first player in WNBA history to score 10,000 career points, reaching the milestone in the third quarter against the Atlanta Dream at the Footprint Center.

Taurasi, who entered the game 18 points shy of the mark, had 10 at halftime and then reached the 10,000-point plateau with a 3-pointer at the 8:23 mark of the third quarter.

"It's a lifetime's work," Taurasi told ESPN in June. "Ten thousand is going to be something that hopefully means something to women's basketball and it's going to, I feel like, be even a bigger deal when someone breaks it.