1. Sabrina Elaine Ionescu is a Romanian-American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association.
58 Facts About Sabrina Ionescu
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Sabrina Ionescu played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks and is considered one of the greatest collegiate players of all time.
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Sabrina Ionescu is the Division I career leader in triple-doubles and holds the Pac-12 Conference all-time assists record.
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Sabrina Ionescu was selected first overall by the New York Liberty in the 2020 WNBA draft.
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Sabrina Ionescu has been selected to three consecutive WNBA All-Star games and has thrice made the All-WNBA Team.
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In 2023, Sabrina Ionescu set the WNBA single-season record in three-pointers and the WNBA Three-Point Contest record.
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Sabrina Ionescu was named to the 2024 Summer Olympics team for USA and won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Sabrina Ionescu was born in Walnut Creek, California, to Romanian-American parents.
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Sabrina Ionescu hoped that his then-wife, Liliana Blaj, and their son Andrei could join them in a few months, but they were unable to move to the US until 1995.
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Sabrina Ionescu was around three years old when she first picked up a basketball.
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Sabrina Ionescu has a twin brother Edward, who was born 18 minutes after her.
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Sabrina Ionescu attended a middle school that did not have enough players to field a girls' team, and her school refused to allow her to play on the boys' team.
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Sabrina Ionescu was a four-year varsity basketball letter winner at Miramonte High School in Orinda, California under head coach Kelly Sopak.
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Sabrina Ionescu posted a triple-double in the championship game loss to Chaminade with 24 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds.
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Sabrina Ionescu made a first half buzzer-beating shot from half court.
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Sabrina Ionescu received national honors including the USA Today Girls Basketball Player of the Year, Max Preps Player of the Year, Cal-Hi Sports Ms.
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Sabrina Ionescu was named a McDonald's All-America and Jordan Brand All-American selection.
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Sabrina Ionescu was named the McDonald's All-America game MVP after scoring a record 25 points, including seven three-pointers, with 10 rebounds.
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Sabrina Ionescu is the all-time leader in assists, steals and triple-doubles.
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Sabrina Ionescu held the single-game scoring record of 43 points vs Pinewood High School while being double- and triple-teamed and the single-game record in assists with 19 at Dublin High School.
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Sabrina Ionescu was the No 1 ranked point guard and No 4 overall player in the recruiting class of 2016.
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Sabrina Ionescu finally committed to Oregon just before the school's 2016 summer term began, driving with her father for 8 hours from their Bay Area home to Eugene, making an unannounced visit to Matthew Knight Arena and telling head coach Kelly Graves that she would join the team.
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Sabrina Ionescu recorded four triple-doubles, one shy of the Pac-12 record and two less than the NCAA record.
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Sabrina Ionescu averaged 14.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game, ranking second on the team in scoring and rebounding, and first in assists.
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Sabrina Ionescu posted seven double-doubles, ranked third in the Pac-12 and 29th in the NCAA with 183 assists on the year.
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Sabrina Ionescu was named Pac-12 Freshman of Week four times and was named USBWA National Player of the Week.
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Sabrina Ionescu rose to national prominence in her sophomore year, leading the Ducks to their third regular-season league crown all-time and first-ever No 1 seed in the Pac-12 Women's Basketball Tournament.
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Sabrina Ionescu led the Pac-12 in scoring and assists, dishing out 7.8 assists per game which was fifth-most in the country.
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Sabrina Ionescu had 16 double-doubles this season and 14 20-point games.
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Sabrina Ionescu recorded 10-assist games 13 times this season, handing out a league season-high 14 twice.
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On February 26,2018, Sabrina Ionescu was named ESPNW's college basketball player of the week.
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Sabrina Ionescu was named the winner of the Nancy Lieberman Award as the top Division I women's point guard after the season, and was a finalist for the Naismith Award.
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Sabrina Ionescu became the NCAA women's all-time leader in triple-doubles, trailing only former BYU men's player Kyle Collinsworth among all NCAA players.
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On November 6,2018, Sabrina Ionescu recorded her 11th triple-double in a victory against Alaska-Fairbanks.
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On December 20,2018, Sabrina Ionescu recorded her 13th triple-double in a game against Air Force and broke the NCAA triple-double record for both men's and women's basketball.
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Sabrina Ionescu was later named ESPNW Player of the Week.
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Since that game, Sabrina Ionescu added five more triple-doubles for a season total of eighteen and broke the Oregon women's basketball assist record in a Pac-12 conference game against USC.
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Sabrina Ionescu finished the game with 31 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and a steal.
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Sabrina Ionescu fell short of another triple-double with 16 points, 12 assists and 9 rebounds in the game but recorded her 2,012th career point and 810th career assist.
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Sabrina Ionescu recorded her eighth triple-double of the season, tying her own NCAA single-season record from the previous season.
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Sabrina Ionescu received the Nancy Lieberman award for her third straight season.
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Sabrina Ionescu was a significant draw when Oregon went on the road; for example, when the Ducks visited Washington during her junior season, the crowd for that game was 3,000 more than the Huskies drew two nights earlier against Oregon State.
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Sabrina Ionescu turned 22 in December 2019, making her eligible to declare for the 2019 WNBA draft.
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However, Sabrina Ionescu announced in an open letter published in The Players' Tribune on April 6,2019, the day after Oregon's loss to Baylor in the Final Four and four days before the draft, that she would return to Oregon for her senior season.
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Sabrina Ionescu was diagnosed the next day with a grade 3 sprain, and was expected to miss about one month while recovering.
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Sabrina Ionescu complained about not being able to be considered a rookie in her second season of playing in the WNBA even though she played two games in her first season.
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The next season, on May 18,2021, Sabrina Ionescu recorded her first professional triple-double in her 6th career game.
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Sabrina Ionescu scored 26 points, 12 assists, and 10 rebounds, she became the fastest player in WNBA history to record a triple double.
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On July 6,2022, Sabrina Ionescu had 31 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists to record the first 30-point triple-double in WNBA history.
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On December 23,2024, Sabrina Ionescu was announced as the final roster spot for the inaugural 2025 season of Unrivaled, the women's 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, signing a deal that "puts her in a category of her own" within the league.
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Sabrina Ionescu signed with Phantom BC, joining her former college teammate, Satou Sabally, and filling the club's final wildcard spot.
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On July 14,2023, Sabrina Ionescu scored 37 points in the Three-Point Contest, the highest in WNBA history, making 25 of her final 27 shots.
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On February 17,2024, Sabrina Ionescu competed against Stephen Curry in a three-point contest during the NBA All-Star Weekend.
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Sabrina Ionescu was invited to participate in the 2024 contest, but declined the offer.
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On September 1,2023, the Nike Sabrina Ionescu 1's were released as her first signature shoe.
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In June 2024, Sabrina Ionescu was named to the US women's Olympic team to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in France alongside fellow New York Liberty teammate, Breanna Stewart.
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Sabrina Ionescu is a very close friend of her former teammate Ruthy Hebard.
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On March 10,2024, Sabrina Ionescu married NFL center and former University of Oregon football player Hroniss Grasu, a Romanian-American.