Wow. Unreal shooting coming from the New York Liberty's Sabrina Ionescu as she whooped both the NBA and WNBA all-star three-point shootout record.
37 points?
The NBA record stands at 31 with Steph Curry doing it in 2021 and Tyrese Haliburton tying it in 2023. In the WNBA, four-time winner Allie Quigley of the Chicago Sky holds the record with 30 points.
The 25-year-old from California is the top pick of the 2020 WNBA Draft and is on her to become one of the league's best players - bouncing back from an injury-plagued rookie year and a not-so-stellar sophomore campaign.
More or less, the shootout is career-defining especially if you are a great player who is far from just a spot-up artist. Time and again, the contest has defined iconic players with the likes of HOF-ers Larry Bird, Ray Allen, Dirk Nowitzki, and Paul Pierce and soon-to-be-Hall of Famers like Curry, Klay Thompson, Kyrie Irving, and Damian Lillard.
Ionescu's iconic finals performance is a thing in the record books. It's possibly beatable if the league decides to further soup up the contest like the inclusion of the Starry (or Sprite) balls.
Ionescu won the round missing just two shots though.