At the 2024 NBA All-Star event series, Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu will officially face off in a special 3-point shooting contest that has never appeared before.
Stephen Curry is already very famous to NBA fans in particular and the basketball world in general. He has the most successful 3-pointers of all time in the NBA, and is considered the greatest 3-point shooter.
Facing the NBA superstar will be Sabrina Ionescu, one of the talented female students of the late legend Kobe Bryant. Ionescu is considered a “super shooter” in the WNBA with extremely impressive 3-point shooting ability.
At the 2024 NBA All-Star event series, Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu will officially face off in a special, unprecedented 3-point shooting contest, creating an extremely promising NBA vs WNBA competition.
The contest format will be similar to the Three-Point Contest that fans are familiar with in All-Star games with 5 throwing corners, each corner has 5 balls.
Among these 5 corners, there will be 4 normal corners including 4 balls worth 1 point and 1 money-ball worth 2 points. A special corner will include 5 money-balls, each worth 2 points (called money-rack).
In addition, the two throwers will be able to try 2 more throws from the logo distance (each shot counts for 3 points), about 2 meters further from the normal throwing position.
Originally, the game rules dictated that Stephen Curry would shoot 3-pointers from the NBA arc (23 feet 9 inches), and Sabrina would shoot from the WNBA arc (22 feet 1.75 inches).
However, Ionescu announced that she will compete with Curry using the NBA’s 3-point range to ensure fairness. The only remaining difference is that Sabrina uses a WNBA game ball and Curry will throw an NBA game ball.
Between Stephen Curry vs Sabrina Ionescu: Who has the advantage?
In 2023, Ionescu set an American professional basketball record (including NBA and WNBA) with 37 points in the Three-Point Contest.
The female player born in 1997 successfully threw 25 out of 27 shots to set a record for the highest score in the current competition format, which is being used in the NBA and WNBA.
The previous record was jointly owned by two NBA players, Curry and Tyrese Haliburton, who each scored 31 points in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Despite having the advantage in points and historic performance in 2023, Sabrina Ionescu has one weakness over Stephen Curry: experience in 3-point shooting.
Last year’s championship was the first time Sabrina participated in an official 3-point competition. Meanwhile, “chef” Curry has appeared 7 times at NBA Three-Point Contest events.
In addition, Stephen Curry is already “hot” because he is playing in the middle of the NBA season, and Sabrina Ionescu is in the WNBA off-season.
Of course, every contest will have wins, losses and prizes for the winner. The champion thrower will receive a large amount of money to the charity they designate.
In addition, State Farm insurance company will participate in the program, donating an additional $1,000 for each 3-point shot, $2,000 for each money-ball and $3,000 for each shot from logo range. basket.
The total donation value corresponding to the number of successful shots of both Curry and Ionescu will be transferred by State Farm to the NBA Foundation charity fund.