surrounding WNBA vets and rookies.Phoenix Mercury player Diana Taurasi—a six-time Olympian with 20 years of experience in the league—faced backlash over her controversial warning that “reality is coming” for incoming rookies ahead of this year's WNBA season.“There’s levels to this thing. And that’s just life, we all went through it,” the 41-year-old SportsCenter’s Scott Van Pelt in April. “You see it on the NBA side, and you’re going to see it on this side.