(KRON) — Two Bay Area sharpshooters went head to head in NBA All-Star Saturday Night in Indianapolis. It was the NBA’s finest shooter versus the WNBA’s finest shooter.
Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry versus New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu.
Curry bordered the Walnut Creek indigenous Ionescu by installing 29 of a feasible 40 factors in the shootout. Ionescu racked up 26 factors.
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Ionescu tested Curry to a 3-point competitors after she won the WNBA 3-Point Contest last summer season by racking up a document 37 factors (out of a feasible 40) in the last round.
Curry approved the difficulty and meant the shootout throughout a Jan. 25 video game versus the Sacramento Kings. Ionescue replied to Curry’s words by approving the difficulty.
The NBA formally introduced the “Stephen vs. Sabrina” shootout a couple of days later on.
Curry is a two-time NBA 3-Point Contest champion and established the all-time document with 3,577 makes from range in the normal period. The four-time NBA champ has the regular-season document for a lot of 3-pointers (402) collection in 2015-16.
Ionescu established the WNBA single-season document with 128 3-pointers in the 2023 period. Ionescu participated in Miramonte High School in Orinda.
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The shootout was an unique destination different from the organization’s yearly 3-point competition. The occasion for charity occurred at Lucas Oil Stadium. Both gamers fired from the exact same range with Curry capturing with an NBA-sized round while Ionescu fired with a WNBA-sized round.
