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Just How Good is Sabrina Ionescu?
It can be easy to overlook guard Sabrina Ionescu because of all the other great players that she is on the court with on a regular basis. She is also playing on the same team with one of the greatest forwards in the game in Breanna Stewart. She has played a big role on the New York Liberty’s 2024 WNBA championship season, but just how good has she been since she has entered the ‘W”?
Ionescu was born on December 6, 1997 and she is still in the prime of her career at the age of 27. She went to school at the University of Oregon from 2016 to 2020. When she was through at the collegiate level, her work paid off as she is currently Division 1’s all-time leader in triple-doubles. She was the first overall pick by the New York Liberty in the 2020 WNBA draft. All her hard work was paying off. She had come a long way growing up; because it was tough for her to get opportunities.
“When I was younger, I was always playing with the guys, and I had to find ways to get the ball, because they never wanted to pass to me. So I figured that if I could rebound, I would be able to get the ball myself. Then passing-wise, when I was in the sixth grade playing with the eighth-grade team, I was obviously smaller, skinnier, and shorter than they were. I would just have to find ways to impact the game other than shooting and scoring, and that was passing”, Ionescu said to the…
