Sabrina Ionescu will give rookie Sonia Citron half of her three-point contest prize money, praising the 21-year-old for having the courage to step up and compete in the event.<\/p>\n
“I think I have a limit on Venmo, so I got to figure out how to exactly do that. I’ve got to pick up the check … maybe just cut it in half,” Ionescu joked, per ESPN’s Kendra Andrews<\/a>. <\/p>\n Ionescu earned $60,000 for her stellar performance on Friday but won\u2019t keep any of it.<\/p>\n The other half of the prize money will be donated to her foundation, SI20, per ESPN’s Alexa Philippou<\/a>. The SI20 Foundation<\/a> aims to give youth from all backgrounds equal access to sports, fostering connections and stronger communities. <\/p>\n Citron, the third overall pick in the 2025 WNBA draft and the only rookie to participate in All-Star weekend events, is shooting 36.5 percent from three this season for the Washington Mystics. She scored 19 points in the opening round of the 3-point contest.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ionescu claimed her second 3-point contest title after her 2023 record-breaking win, where she scored 37 points and made 25 of 27 shots. This year, she secured victory with 30 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu will give rookie Sonia Citron half of her three-point contest prize money, praising the 21-year-old for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}