Tonight’s 3-point shootout between Steph Curry and Sabrina Ionescu, billed the Starry Night Contest, is decidedly not a repeat of the famous “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match at the Astrodome in 1973 between Bobby Riggs, who played the male chauvinist pig role to the hilt, and Billie Jean King whose cool professionalism and aplomb won the day.
I mean tennis was so unfair to women back then, with pay disparities between them and the male players and little to no national exposure, creature comforts on the respective tours were downright unfair when compared. It’s not like the NBA and WNBA now .