Sabrina Ionescu doesn’t particularly enjoy talking about herself. It’s not that she’s unfriendly, or even shy. It’s just that — well, let her explain.
“I just try to represent myself to the best of my ability, just with my actions, not with my words,” Ionescu told Yahoo Sports in December. “Because I’m not one to ... ”
She cuts herself off, humility impeding full explanation.
“I don’t know, I don’t like talking about myself like that,” she concludes.
And yet these days, an endless stream of people want Ionescu to do just that. To talk, via phone or video call from her family’s Northern California home, about end-of-season honors and next week’s WNBA draft.