Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark won’t take part within the NBA vs. WNBA 3-point problem at subsequent month’s NBA All-Star Recreation festivities, opting to make her 3-point contest debut on the WNBA’s All-Star Recreation in July.
“Caitlin won’t be at NBA All-Star,” her representatives at Excel Sports activities Administration stated in a press release to . “She needs her first 3-point contest to be at WNBA All-Star in Indianapolis this summer time.”
Clark’s participation would have come on the heels of a profitable competitors final 12 months between Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry and New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu. Curry edged Ionescu 29-26 within the single-round taking pictures problem that simply upstaged the NBA’s common 3-point contest. The occasion was held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Ionescu has not publicly confirmed whether or not she’s going to take part in any of the NBA All-Star Weekend festivities this 12 months. She is at the moment taking part in in Unequalled, the brand new skilled ladies’s basketball 3×3 league that launched earlier this month.
Nonetheless, the Liberty star acknowledged throughout a current Unequalled media availability that she’s going to miss some video games due to extra obligations (she didn’t play in Phantom’s video games final week whereas in Paris for the NBA Paris Video games) and that she will likely be within the Bay Space for NBA All-Star Weekend. The festivities will happen in San Francisco from Feb. 14-16.
“I’m from the Bay,” Ionescu stated.
The WNBA’s All-Star Weekend will happen in Indianapolis at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, residence of the Fever and the NBA’s Indiana Pacers, on July 18 and 19.
This text initially appeared in The Athletic.
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