Diana Taurasi will retire after 20 seasons, ending one of the greatest careers in women’s basketball history. The WNBA’s career scoring leader and three-time league champion, Taurasi announced his retirement on Tuesday in an interview with Time magazine. The Phoenix Mercury the only WNBA team she played for also confirmed her decision. With his strong bun and absolute confidence, Taurasi inspired a whole generation of players by continuously setting records and winning championships. Taurasi led UConn to three consecutive national championships from 2001 to 2004 and continued to win after the Mercury selected her with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2004 WNBA draft.

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“It’s hard to put into words, really, what this means. When someone defines the game, when someone has a huge impact on so many people and so many places. You can’t define it with a quote,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. “It is a life like a novel, a movie, a short series, a long story. It’s the life of an extraordinary person who, I think, did as much to change women’s basketball as anyone who ever played the game.”The 42-year-old won her sixth Olympic gold medal at the Paris Games and finished her WNBA career with 10,646 points, nearly 3,000 more than second-place Tina Charles.