This year’s WNBA 3-point contest will have two notable exceptio
Indiana Fever rookie sensation Caitlin Clark and Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu, who won last year’s trey competition, won’t be among those in this year’s contest, the league announced↔ Wednesday night.
The Liberty’s Jonquel Jones, however, will be playing in the event along with Sophie Cunningham (Phoenix Mercury), Allisha Gray (Atlanta Dream), Brittney Griner (Phoenix Mercury), Marina Mabrey (Connecticut Sun) and Erica Wheeler (Indiana Fever).
This year’s WNBA 3-point contest will have two notable exceptions.
Indiana Fever rookie sensation Caitlin Clark and Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu, who won last year’s trey competition, won’t be among those in this year’s contest, the league announced Wednesday night.
The Liberty’s Jonquel Jones, however, will be playing in the event along with Sophie Cunningham (Phoenix Mercury), Allisha Gray (Atlanta Dream), Brittney Griner (Phoenix Mercury), Marina Mabrey (Connecticut Sun) and Erica Wheeler (Indiana Fever).
Clark, who made her first WNBA All-Star team in her freshman campaign, has hit 71 trey balls, good for third-most in the league this year.
“My focus is on this game tonight and then we’ll turn to All-Star then after that,” Clark told reporters, according to The Athletic, before her Fever’s 101-93 loss to the Dallas Wings on Wednesday night’s in which It’s already been an impressive year for Clark, who now holds the Fever’s single-season franchise record with 213 assists while also becoming the fastest player ever to record 400 points and 200 assists in the same season, accomplishing the feat in a mere 26 games.
- Ionsecu, second in the leaguewith 74 3-pointers this year, scored a professional — NBA or WNBA — record with 37 points in the final round of last year’s 3-point competition in Las Vegas.
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