Steph Curry retained his title of the best shooter in the world Friday night, but the New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu made him sweat in a tight contest between the NBA and WNBA’s best deep bucker-getters at the NBA All-Star Weekend.
Curry finished with 29 shootout points while Ionescu registered 26 in the one-round competition in the first him-vs-her shooting contest, which was the result of her extraordinary performance at the WNBA All-Star Weekend last summer.
The Liberty star was first up and using the slightly smaller WNBA ball started strong, making 7-of-7 and ultimately racking up her 26 points — making 18-of-27 three’s, but only 11 of the final 20.