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WNBA star Diana Taurasi wears nothing but a basketball and a tattoo in her cover photos for ESPN The Magazine 2nd Annual Body Issue hitting newsstands Friday.

USA Today’s Michael McCarthy got an exclusive look at the Phoenix Mercury’s star guard on two different covers. One is shown above and the other shows Taurasi naked with a basketball against her hip. Her private parts covered of course.

There will be five other cover subjects for the Body Issue this year. The subjects include:

A dozen members of the USA Water Polo Women’s National team New York Knicks star Amar’e Stoudemire, U.S. World Cup goalkeeper Tim Howard, PGA Tour golfer Camilo Villegas and Dutch wheelchair tennis player Esther Vergeer.

Other athletes featured in this year’s Body Issue include:

Venus Williams, Tennis star
Patrick Willis, San Francisco 49ers linebacker
Hanley Ramirez, Florida Marlins shortstop
Jeanette “The Black Widow” Lee, Billiards player
Julia Mancuso, Olympic skier
Evan Lysacek, Figure skater
Kelly Slater, Surfer
Kim Glass, Volleyball
Rachel Yurkovich, Track and Field
Herschel Walker, Ex-NFL running back

The first Body Issue last fall also featured six cover subjects: tennis star Serena Williams, Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, mixed martial artist Gina Carano and amputee track star Sarah Reinertsen.