Sabrina Ionescu, the 26-year-old player of Romanian origin who has been playing for four years in the WNBA, the professional basketball league in the United States reserved for girls, made a sensational game on Wednesday morning in the play-offs for the New York Liberty, her team, qualifying- o in the semifinals.
Sabrina Ionescu scored 36 points PHOTO Brandon Todd/New York Liberty
New York Liberty defeated Atlanta Dream 91-82, and Sabrina Ionescu scored no less than 36 points, having nine decisive assists and being declared the best player of the game. And Sabrina Ionescu becomes the first player in WNBA history to score at least 35 points in a play-off game.
And, thanks to the developments of Sabrina Ionescu, New York Liberty is the favorite in this edition of the championship to reach the WNBA finals and to win the first championship title in the history of the club founded in 1997.
“Our ultimate goal is to win the championship, but to achieve our goal we have to win every match”said Sabrina Ionescu after the match.
In the WNBA semifinals, which begin on September 29, the New York Liberty will face the Las Vegas Aces.
Sabrina Ionescu clearly surpassed her opponents PHOTO Brandon Todd/New York Liberty
Since 2020, Sabrina Ionescu plays for the New York Liberty team in the WNBA, and in 2021 she became the youngest player in the history of the North American championship to achieve a triple-double, a term in basketball that denotes at least 10 decisive assists, 10 rebounds and all so many successful points in one game. Currently, Sabrina has reached no less than 4,472 points scored for the New York Liberty.
Sabrina is the first player in WNBA history to reach over 500 points, over 200 rebounds and over 200 assists in a single season.
In 2023, Sabrina Ionescu reached the WNBA finals with the New York Liberty, but lost to the team from Las Vegas, the same team she will face in the semifinals.
Sabrina Ionescu was born in California, in the United States, on December 6, 1997, exactly the year New York Liberty, the team she plays for now, was founded. His father, Dan Ionescu, left Romania during the Revolution of December 1989, in search of a better life across the ocean. He would reunite his family after a few months, in the spring of 1990, taking with him his wife Liliana and their first son, Andrei.
