Caitlin Clark and Klay Thompson could possibly be the most recent additions to the NBA’s All-Star Weekend three-point taking pictures competitors. Final yr, Sabrina Ionescu and Steph Curry confronted off within the first-of-its-kind problem, with Curry edging out the WNBA celebrity 29-26. This yr, Clark and Thompson could possibly be becoming a member of the competitors.
On Friday evening, ESPN insider Shams Charania stated the competitors might develop to incorporate the WNBA Rookie of the Yr and the four-time NBA champion.
“Sources inform me that Curry and Ionescu are persevering with discussions on bringing again that shootout,” Charania stated. “There’s plans for that. But additionally, probably together with Klay Thompson and Caitlin Clark in that competitors this yr.”
Reporting for NBA Countdown on the tournament-style 2025 All-Star Sport – plus Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu working so as to add two mates to the NBA-WNBA 3-point problem: pic.twitter.com/DjjpAb1GO2
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 16, 2024
The “Steph vs Sabrina” three-point competitors was conceived after Sabrina Ionescu recorded 37 factors (out of a attainable 40) within the 2023 WNBA All-Star contest. The 37-point mark set each a WNBA and an NBA single-round report,.
In flip, Ionescu challenged Curry — the NBA’s all-time three-point chief — to a three-point contest, and occasion that was extensively thought-about one of many highlights of the 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis.
Each Clark and Thompson’s additions could be becoming — Clark set the WNBA rookie report for many three-pointers in a single season with 122 threes this previous season. That’s the second most threes made by a WNBA participant in a single season, second to solely Ionescu, who holds the report for many threes in a single-season (124).
Thompson, in the meantime, holds the NBA report for many three-pointers made in a single recreation (14). Thompson and Curry received 4 WNBA championships as teammates, and their non permanent reunification as teammates for this contest would add one other layer of intrigue.
It’s not the one potential twist to NBA All-Star weekend — Charania additionally reported that the league is contemplating exchange the All-Star Sport with a four-team, tournament-style format made up of three All-Star groups and the winner of the Rising Stars recreation. The 2 winners of the primary recreation would face off in a last match.
Nothing is about in stone but, however having Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu sq. off in opposition to Steph Curry and Klay Thompson in a three-point shootout might function the spotlight of NBA All-Star Weekend, which can happen from February 16 to 18 in Chase Heart.
