Sabrina Ionescu #20 of the New York Liberty shoots a bounce shot over Tiffany Hayes #15 of the Las Vegas Aces within the first half of their recreation at Michelob ULTRA Enviornment on August 17, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Candice Ward/Getty Pictures/AFP
MANILA, Philippines—American basketball star Sabrina Ionescu is all for having a four-point line within the WNBA.
Throughout her Manila Tour, Ionescu discovered that the Philippine Basketball Affiliation (PBA) has a four-point line, which the league applied in August final 12 months.
Ionescu, a famend shooter, thinks having a four-point shot will add pleasure to the WNBA.
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“I didn’t know that. I feel we have to convey that to the WNBA. That’s thrilling,” stated the New York Liberty guard.
“It’s an thrilling a part of the sport. I feel it modifications the sport, persevering with to push folks to wish to be higher, to shoot from there in order that’s actually thrilling. I feel that’s type of the enjoyable a part of basketball, you’ll be able to proceed to enhance and alter it,” she added.
Using a four-point line raised eyebrows within the PBA however Ionescu feels it’s one thing she might thrive in.
“I’d like it. I positively know I’d get pleasure from it,” the 27-year-old Ionescu stated.
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“I imply, everybody’s taking pictures extra threes. Everybody’s taking part in sooner basketball. Posts are stepping outdoors and taking part in from behind the road so I feel it might be superior to have the ability to see that sooner or later type of evolve our recreation as properly.”
Ionescu’s no stranger to launching long-range bombs.
From her journey as a standout at College of Oregon to New York, the three-point shot has been her calling card. In truth, she even went up towards Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry in a three-point shootout in final 12 months’s NBA All-Star Weekend.
