{"id":8837,"date":"2025-07-19T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8837\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:02:10","slug":"sabrina-ionescu-pays-tribute-to-steph-curry-in-photo-after-wnba-3-point-contest-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8837\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu Pays Tribute to Steph Curry in Photo After WNBA 3-Point Contest Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Sabrina Ionescu paid tribute to Stephen Curry following her dominant 3-point contest victory Friday night, striking his signature &#8220;night-night&#8221; pose with the trophy to celebrate her second WNBA 3-point title in as many appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">\u201cNight Night x2,\u201d Ionescu captioned a <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMRdiIptxKa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">series of photos<\/a> on Instagram after the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ionescu dropped 30 points in the final round to comfortably beat reigning champ Allisha Gray of the Atlanta Dream, who finished with 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Liberty guard out of Oregon set a combined NBA and WNBA 3-point contest record with 37 points in her 2023 debut. Her 30-point outing this year tied for the second-highest mark in WNBA 3-point contest history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Splash Sister to Curry\u2019s Splash Brother, Ionescu faced off with the NBA\u2019s all-time three-point leader in the 2024 NBA 3-point contest, where she came up short against Curry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In her first appearance since then, she paid homage to Curry by hitting his signature &#8220;night-night&#8221; pose.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu paid tribute to Stephen Curry following her dominant 3-point contest victory Friday night, striking his signature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-8837","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\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}