WNBA legend and all-time great Diana Taurasi announced her retirement from basketball in an exclusive TIME interview published Tuesday, and among the piece's many great quotes is one from Sue Bird, wherein the fellow WNBA heavyweight explains what sets Taurasi—quite possibly the greatest player the WNBA has ever seen—apart from other icons.
“There are players that have full games,” Bird told the outlet. “You can talk about Maya Moore in this conversation, Candace Parker, Lisa Leslie. You could talk about all these great names. The difference is the way she makes her teammates feel. The way she raises the level of her teams. That, to me, is the separator.”
