Diana Taurasi is retiring after 20 seasons, ending one of the greatest careers in women’s basketball history.

The WNBA’s career scoring leader and a three-time league champion, Taurasi announced her retirement on Wednesday in an interview with Time magazine.

With her taut hair bun and supreme confidence, Taurasi inspired a generation of players while racking up records and championships.

Taurasi led UConn to three straight national titles from 2001-04 and kept on winning after the Mercury selected her with the No. 1 overall pick of the 2004 WNBA draft.

The 42-year-old won her sixth Olympic gold medal at the Paris Games and finishes her WNBA career with 10,646 points, nearly 3,000 more than second-place Tina Charles.

In addition to her three WNBA championships with the Mercury, Taurasi won six Euroleague championships while playing year-round most of her career. She was the 2009 WNBA MVP and is one of four players to earn WNBA Finals MVP honors more than once (2009, 2014).NBA

Heat’s Jovic out at least 4 weeks >> Nikola Jovic will miss at least the next four weeks with a broken bone in his right hand, a blow to the team’s hopes of securing a guaranteed playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Jovic broke the second metacarpal in his hand during Sunday’s game at Milwaukee and was diagnosed with the fracture at halftime. He didn’t play on Monday at Atlanta and was evaluated by Heat chief of hand surgery Elizabeth Ann Ouellette and team physician Harlan Selesnick on Tuesday, after which the four-week timetable was determined.

College football

Hall of Fame coach Fusco dies at 87 >> College Football Hall of Fame coach Joe Fusco, who won four NAIA Division II national championships in 19 years at Westminster College, has died at 87.

Fusco coached Westminster from 1972-90 and won national titles in 1976, 1977, 1988 and 1989. The Titans won 21 of 22 games in the 1976-77 seasons and had the nation’s longest winning streak with 27 consecutive victories over the 1988-89 seasons.

Baseball

Dodgers deferred money reaches over $1 billion >> The Los Angeles Dodgers owe $1.051 billion in deferred pay to eight players from 2028-46 following Tanner Scott’s $72 million, four-year contract and Teoscar Hernández’s $66 million, three-year deal.

Los Angeles’ high payment point is $100.95 million in both 2038 and ‘39, according to details obtained by The Associated Press.

Major League Baseball proposed during collective bargaining on June 21, 2021, to put an end to the practice, but the players’ association rejected the change.

College sports

Stanford athletic director Muir steps down >> Stanford athletic director Bernard Muir plans to resign after 13 years on the job.

Muir took over from Bob Bowlsby in July 2012 and oversaw an athletic department that won dozens of national titles but struggled in recent years in the high-profile sports of football and men’s basketball.

Muir also oversaw the Cardinal’s transition to the ACC this past year after the school’s long-term home, the Pac-12, broke apart.