Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu attracts Stephen Curry response after historic WNBA 3-point contest

Sabrina Ionescu broke the WNBA and NBA 3-point contest data along with her remaining spherical Friday, and it even drew a response from one of many NBA’s finest shooters.

“RIDICULOUS,” Curry tweeted Friday night, typing his response above a video of Ionescu’s remaining spherical the place the Liberty star scored 37 out of a attainable 40 factors.

Then, a number of hours later, Ionescu tagged Curry in a separate tweet, asking the Warriors’ star — and co-holder of the NBA 3-point contest’s document (31) alongside Tyrese Haliburton — for a “shoot out ??” and including a laughing emoji.

Along with shattering the NBA record set by Curry and Haliburton, Ionescu additionally surpassed the WNBA mark set by Chicago Sky Allie Quigley, who hit 30 final 12 months and wrote on Twitter afterward that Ionescu’s document “received’t ever be damaged.”

Ionescu made 20 consecutive photographs at one level throughout her spherical till she missed her remaining shot from the proper wing — the second-to-last station earlier than Ionescu reached the nook, the place she linked on one other 5 photographs and roared after the ultimate one.

“I used to be simply centered on making one by one,” Ionescu mentioned following the 3-point contest. “I wasn’t positive what number of I missed, however I knew it wasn’t so much, so I’m joyful to have received this and grateful for the group. They had been cheering me on all the time.”

The three-point competitors was a part of the WNBA’s All-Star weekend, which continues with the All-Star Recreation on Saturday, when Ionescu and guard Courtney Vandersloot will be a part of Breanna Stewart on Group Stewart.

By way of her first 16 video games with the Liberty in 2023, Ionescu has linked on 44.6 p.c of her 3-pointers whereas making an attempt a career-most 7.6 per sport and making a career-high 3.4.

The Liberty, which sit in first place within the Jap Convention and have the WNBA’s second-best document behind the Las Vegas Aces, don’t play once more till internet hosting the Dallas Wings following the All-Star break on July 19.