{"id":15102,"date":"2025-07-17T00:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15102\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T00:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:53:09","slug":"wnba-all-star-3-point-contest-caitlin-clark-sabrina-ionescu-and-allisha-gray-are-headliners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15102\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA All-Star 3-point contest: Caitlin Clark, Sabrina Ionescu and Allisha Gray are headliners"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark will hopefully be in a 3-point contest for the first time in her pro career as the Indiana Fever guard is set to compete Friday night in the WNBA All-Star competition.<\/p>\n

Clark injured her right groin on Tuesday night<\/a> in the last minute of the Fever\u2019s game against Connecticut and it\u2019s unknown if she\u2019ll be able to participate this weekend in either the contest or the All-Star Game. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo discussion yet about this weekend.\u201d Indiana coach Stephanie White said before the Fever faced New York on Wednesday night. \u201cThere was imaging done, but there hasn\u2019t been any discussion beyond tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

If she can go, she\u2019ll be joined by contest record holder<\/a> Sabrina Ionescu, who last entered the contest in 2023 and hit 25 of her 27 shots in the final round, scoring 37 points. It was the most shots made in a 3-point contest in either the WNBA or NBA.<\/p>\n

The Liberty\u2019s star guard wanted to make sure she was completely healthy before officially entering the contest. She said she\u2019ll be trying to break her own mark.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s management team said earlier this year when she turned down competing in some fashion at NBA All-Star weekend that the young star wanted her first 3-point contest to be in Indianapolis at the WNBA weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never participated in a 3-point competition before, never practiced before, so go out there and have fun,\u201d Clark said before Tuesday night\u2019s game. \u201cThe lineup of people competing is tremendous so more than anything its going to be really great for our league and women\u2019s basketball as a whole. I\u2019m just excited. The skills competition and that will be a really exciting time and will lead into Saturday and a really great game as well.\u201d <\/p>\n

Allisha Gray, who made her own history<\/a> last season, winning the 3-point and skills challenge, will try to defend her title in both competitions. She beat Jonquel Jones 22-21 to win the 3-point shootout. Gray beat Sophie Cunningham by 2 seconds to win the skills competition.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta Dream star received $110,000 from Aflac as part of a partnership with the WNBPA. The 3-point contest winner this year will get $60,000 from Aflac which is $5,000 more than the company gave last year. <\/p>\n

Gray also got $2,575 from the league for each of her two victories.<\/p>\n

Other participants in the 3-point contest are Washington rookie Sonia Citron and Los Angeles\u2019 Kelsey Plum.<\/p>\n

The other players competing in the skills challenge will be New York\u2019s Natasha Cloud, Seattle\u2019s Skylar Diggins and Erica Wheeler, and Minnesota\u2019s Courtney Williams.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark will hopefully be in a 3-point contest for the first time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4130,1017,3830,3135,1760,2356,2000,3252,1996,3506,3505,14401,9092,793,681,5630,5629,8262,2652,2839,14400,10504,6429,6661,7788,1058,1999,2004,1060,3675,4386,4805,99,4803,1022,1059,795,2003,2002,434,13017,13016],"class_list":["post-15102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-allisha-gray","tag-arizona","tag-az-state-wire","tag-ca-state-wire","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-california","tag-connecticut","tag-courtney-williams","tag-ct-state-wire","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-erica-wheeler","tag-ga-state-wire","tag-general-news","tag-georgia","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-in-state-wire","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-minnesota","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-nevada","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-wire","tag-nv-state-wire","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-stephanie-white","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-news","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}