Diana Taurasi doesn't quite know when she'll call it quits on her playing career, but she does have an idea of what life after basketball may entail.
The UConn and WNBA legend is interested in owning a team, Taurasi said Saturday night on an Instagram Live show hosted by former UConn teammate Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, Bird's girlfriend and a fixture on the U.S. women's national soccer team.
"It's funny. Everyone's like, 'Do you want to be a coach? Do you want to be a GM?' No, I want to own it," said Taurasi, 37. "I want to own a team!"
Taurasi's on-court legacy _ three national championships at UConn, three WNBA titles, four Olympic gold medals, becoming the WNBA's all-time leading scorer and so much more _ has earned her recognition as one of the sport's all-time greats. But her vision of owning a team, especially as one of so few women to do so, would ensure that she continues to make an impact on the game even once her playing days are behind her.
"There comes a point where you have to take initiative in the wealth and everything you've built, and it's not to be a coach, it's not to be under anyone, and I think that's what we do as women: We always want to be under someone," Taurasi said. "Even the NBA, which I love, the NBA to me is not the pinnacle of all, which even to all the coaches that we've praised and have done amazing things, we're always a stepping stone. I don't want to be a stepping stone."
In owning a team, Taurasi also hopes to buck a trend of women with means not putting their money behind women's sports, something she sees as particularly problematic considering people have historically under-invested in women's sports. Rapinoe, who has been at the forefront of the USWNT's lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation for equal pay, added that women's sports thrive when given such backing.
"Where are the rich women?" Taurasi said. "I'm so disappointed in the women that have a lot of money ... where are the women with a lot of money who want to invest in women's basketball? ... Sometimes you invest in things that don't make money that you want to make better."
Here are some of the other highlights of Taurasi's Instagram Live appearance, which lasted four hours.
