Diana Taurasi spoke at her Phoenix Mercury retirement press conference about her and Sue Bird's idea to leave Phoenix Mercury and Storm for Liberty.

Diana Taurasi played 20 years in the WNBA for the Phoenix Mercury. Seattle Storm legend Sue Bird played 19 years before she retired in 2022.

However, Bird revealed that they considered joining forces at one point ... one of the greatest guards in WNBA history, spending her whole career with the Seattle Storm. She retired in 2022 ...

That's the same year Bird entered the WNBA as Seattle's No. 1 overall pick ... “Who wouldn’t want to play with the best point guard ever? I always said if there’s one player that always ...

While they were teammates during a WNBA offseason in Russia, Taurasi and Bird, contacted their agents to mull leaving their respective teams Phoenix and Seattle Storm for New York. "For those who ...