Yvonne Turner (born October 13, 1987) is an American-Hungarian professional

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player for the

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of the

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(WNBA) and for Sopron Basket of the EuroLeague Women, and the Hungarian women's basketball league. She previously played with the

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team from 2006 to 2010. Turner played professionally outside of the U.S. as well, including time in Australia, Ecuador, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey. In Hungary during the 2016–17 season, she led the EuroLeague in scoring while playing with

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. She has played the

Phoenix Mercury The Phoenix Mercury are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference (WNBA), Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded before the league ...

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, and the

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during her time in the WNBA.

Nebraska Statistics

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Professional career

WNBA

Phoenix Mercury (2017–2019)

Turner made her WNBA debut in

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with Phoenix. She averaged 5.1 points and 12.8 minutes per game in her 34 appearances, which included four starts. Turner scored a season high of 18 on July 17 at Minnesota in a loss.

Minnesota Lynx

Turner signed a training camp contract on February 18, 2022, with the

. Turner was waived from camp on May 3, but was brought back on a hardship contract due to the Lynx having multiple players missing due to overseas commitments or injuries. Turner was released from her hardship contract with the Lynx on May 16, 2022.

Atlanta Dream

On June 23, 2022, Turner signed a hardship contract with the Dream. Turner appeared in 2 games for the Dream before being released from her Hardship Contract on June 27, 2022.

Phoenix Mercury (2022)

Turner signed with the Mercury on a Hardship Contract on August 8, 2022. The Mercury were able to sign her due to

Diana Taurasi Diana Lorena Taurasi (born June 11, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted by Phoenix first overall in the 2004 WNBA draft. Taurasi has w ...

's season-ending injury.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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Playoffs

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Personal

Turner grew up in

Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest cit ...

and graduated from

Bellevue East High School Bellevue East High School is a four-year public secondary school in Bellevue, a suburb south of Omaha, Nebraska. It opened in 1962 as Bellevue High School and was renamed Bellevue East in 1977, following the opening of Bellevue West. It is part ...

Bellevue, Nebraska Bellevue ( French for "beautiful view"; previously named Belleview) is a suburban city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, and had a population of 64,176 as of the 2020 Census, m ...

. She became one of the oldest players to make their debut in the WNBA when she signed with Phoenix.

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