The WNBA’s two biggest stars won’t be in attendance at Friday’s three point shooting contest.
Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu won’t compete in the All-Star weekend festivities.
Ionescu is perhaps the league’s best sharpshooter and competed in this very competition with Steph Curry. That modified competition saw Ionescu use a WNBA basketball vs Curry’s NBA ball. Ionescu came up short.
The New York Liberty guard did win this competition in 2023, setting the record for most threes in this contest with 37 points. Ionescu ranks No. 4 in the WNBA at three-pointers made per game.
Meanwhile, Clark is a known sharpshooter herself. She ranks right behind Ionescu on the WNBA's three point chart at No. 5 overall with 2.7 threes per game and averaged 5.2 threes per game as a senior at Iowa.
Clark is the WNBA's preeminent star — she put up a WNBA record 19 assists on Wednesday night in a 101-93 loss to the Wings.
The three-point contest is a part of an overall All-Star weekend that will see WNBA All-Stars face off against the U.S. women's basketball national team, which have odds of -1800 to win gold at Paris later this summer. Team USA is also -238 at DraftKings to beat the WNBA All-Stars in Saturday's game.
Kayla McBride, Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Gray, Jonquel Jones and Marina Mabrey will all face off in the three-point contest. Of the quintet, only McBride ranks in the top five in threes made per game in the WNBA. Kelsey Plum (3.1 threes per game) and Arike Ogunbowale (3.0) — alongside Clark and Ionescu — will not compete.
