Basketball is her life, both then and now. Center, heavy forward, 196 cm, 85 kg. Everyone has the right to choose. This is a personal question: what career to choose, which partner to love, where to live. Who cares what’s going on at Australian Lauren Jackson's doorstep? First of all, she is a professional, powerful Australian basketball machine.
Titles, awards
This is the same Lauren Jackson! Having won numerous titles and medals, included in the ranking of the 15 best players in the history of VNBA in 2011 and in the top twenty players in 2016. Medals of the Olympic Games: silver in 2000, 2004 and 2008, bronze in 2012 in London. At the World Championships: Brazilian “gold” in 2006, and “bronze” in Germany and China. Lauren is the richest player in the results of the VNBA regular season (2003, 2004, 2007). Jackson played for the club "Sparta & K" (Moscow region) and "Seattle Storm" (WNBA).
Interestingly, she is also the most productive player in the Olympic Games, scoring 497 points, which is a world record. She is a great athlete, but in modern society it turns out that the personal life of any star is much more interesting than her professional successes.
An affair with Taurasi
Lauren Jackson is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the famous lesbians in women's basketball along with Diana Taurasi from Spartak, Moscow Region. Sometimes such information causes a much greater resonance than the career success of athletes. The passionate relationship between Diana Taurasi and Lauren Jackson is a matter of debate, gossip. Everyone interested in basketball considers it a duty to savor the details. About ladies in "soft pink" make up legends.
At the world championships in Brazil, after the final match between Russia and Australia, Diana and Lauren did not hide their emotions at a luxurious banquet. Jackson, who had just received the championship title, and the winner of the bronze award, Taurasi, shamelessly merged in a passionate kiss in the corridor, congratulating each other on the victory …
Disco, Clubs, Sue
Yes, they had a stormy romance, which did not end with anything good. Rumor has it that the girls quarreled over jealousy. But who is a cheater?
For some reason, Lauren seems to be the affected party. Perhaps because Diana is restless and unstable. She is not at all one of those who can be with someone for a long time, as well as being alone, because by nature she is a notorious party girl. “Sweet Sue, ” perhaps next to her, was beside her. "For Sue I will take a bullet in the forehead, " - said Diana. They were often seen together in elite Moscow institutions, Taurasi repeatedly openly admitted in the press that she could not live without discos, fun and noise.
A typhoon named Diana Taurasi
In the professional field, Diana is called nothing more than "Jordan in a skirt." This playful energetic American can rightly be considered the best basketball player in the world. A high-class professional, attacking defender, who played for the team of the Phoenix Mercury women's national basketball association, UMMC from Yekaterinburg. Her career is wonderful, she owns a huge number of awards and titles, international recognition.
Only she has access to 60 points in one match! The decisive throw coaches trust only Diana. Twice Olympic champion, she collected the titles of the champion of the NBA and the Euroleague, as well as Russia. And her arsenal is listed in the European Super Cup. Taurasi, who adored basketball since childhood, is recognized as the most useful NBA player.
Diana never thought of basketball as a possible job, she never had to hear the whistles of the coach and think about the stopwatch in his hands. She heartily played and enjoyed herself in the process. Probably, sincere enjoyment of the process is the basis for building any career.
Sports childhood "Dee"
Her dad, an Italian, who emigrated to California with his wife, was once a professional football player. Diana, with her masculine character, was brought up in a competitive spirit from early childhood, so she simply did not have a chance to get past a career related to sports.
Arriving in the NBA, Diana simply took all previous records with a typhoon, gaining 26 points in the debut match for the Phoenix. Already in 2007, Diana first put on the champion’s ring, defeating the Detroit, which was previously not subject to rivals.
