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Diana Taurasi

1982 - Today

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Diana Lorena Taurasi (born June 11, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and is considered to be one of the greatest women’s basketball players of all-time.She was drafted by Phoenix first overall in the 2004 WNBA draft. Taurasi has won the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award (2004), three WNBA championships (2007, 2009, and 2014), a historic five Olympic gold medals (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020), one WNBA Most Valuable Player Award (2009), two WNBA Finals MVP Awards (2009 and 2014), five scoring titles (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011), and three FIBA World Cups (2010, 2014, and 2018). She has also been selected to ten WNBA All-Star teams and fourteen All-WNBA teams (including ten first-team selections). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diana Taurasi has received more than 4,283,343 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Diana Taurasi is the 662nd most popular basketball player (down from 475th in 2019), the 15,595th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,273rd in 2019) and the 357th most popular American Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Diana Taurasis by language

Over the past year Diana Taurasi has had the most page views in the with 765,400 views, followed by Spanish (32,483), and French (11,502). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (250.26%), Uzbek (185.71%), and Simple English (172.18%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Diana Taurasi ranks 662 out of 1,757Before her are Ioannis Bourousis, Vincent Poirier, Stéphane Lasme, Martin Müürsepp, Charlie Scott, and Antonio McDyess. After her are Nemanja Nedović, JaVale McGee, Joffrey Lauvergne, Aaron Gordon, Zheng Haixia, and Jusuf Nurkić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Diana Taurasi ranks 540Before her are Florian Kohfeldt, Evan Goldberg, Marlène Schiappa, Patrick Fugit, Steve Hooker, and Stéphane Lasme. After her are Agbani Darego, Orelsan, Robby Ginepri, Arantxa Parra Santonja, Pekka Rinne, and Gilles Yapi Yapo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Diana Taurasi ranks 15,595 out of 20,380Before her are Tawny Cypress (1976), Antonio McDyess (1974), David Robert Mitchell (1974), Harry Gribbon (1885), Jason Hervey (1972), and Ryan Merriman (1983). After her are Derrick Lewis (1985), Nipsey Russell (1918), Nikki Cox (1978), Justin Raimondo (1951), Victor J. Glover (1976), and Maya Harris (1967).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Diana Taurasi ranks 357Before her are Dick Garmaker (1932), Tanoka Beard (1971), Jordan Clarkson (1992), Scott Brooks (1965), Charlie Scott (1948), and Antonio McDyess (1974). After her are JaVale McGee (1988), Aaron Gordon (1995), Nick Van Exel (1971), Austin Carr (1948), Denise Curry (1959), and Gus Williams (1953).