Taurasi makes it back in time for birth of daughter
Updated Oct. 9, 2021 1:28 p.m. ET
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Diana Taurasi made it back home in time to see her wife Penny Taylor give birth to a baby girl — the couple's second child.
Taurasi flew back to Phoenix from Las Vegas immediately after helping the Mercury beat the Aces in Game 5 of their semifinal series. She had 14 of her 24 points in the fourth quarter of the 87-84 win on Friday night.
The league's all-time leading scorer playfully said in a postgame interview to Taylor to “hold it in babe”.
Taurasi had a plane waiting for her for the short flight and then took a car straight to the hospital to see the birth. Taylor
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