{"id":782272,"date":"2026-07-24T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/782272\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:58:08","slug":"sabrina-ionescu-and-kayla-mcbride-push-back-on-3-point-contest-decline-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/782272\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu and Kayla McBride push back on 3-point contest &#8216;decline&#8217; reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Fenton and Cassandra Negley discuss the controversy around reports that <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/players\/6358\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sabrina Ionescu;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sabrina Ionescu&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Ionescu<\/a>, and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/players\/5189\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kayla McBride;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kayla McBride&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayla McBride<\/a> declined 3-point contest invitations, with both players saying they never received formal invites from the league. Catch the full conversation on the \u201cHoops 360\u201d podcast, and subscribe on <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/hoops-360\/id1835709611\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple podcasts;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple podcasts&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">Apple podcasts<\/a>, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2Xu4IwBXk35bT0NwhvaCWC\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotify;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Spotify&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">Spotify<\/a>, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLtAg01865jDf9bphY1ntxVWpjvYS472H4\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube,;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YouTube,&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">YouTube,<\/a> or wherever you listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caroline Fenton and Cassandra Negley discuss the controversy around reports that Sabrina Ionescu, and Kayla McBride declined 3-point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[333029,333028,18117,665,3675,99,434],"class_list":["post-782272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-caroline-fenton","tag-cassandra-negley","tag-kayla-mcbride","tag-reports","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782272","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=782272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}