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Steph Curry defeats Sabrina Ionescu in Starry Night Challenge, All-Star Weekend’s feel-good moment

Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors retained his unofficial title of the world’s best shooter Friday night, but the New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu made him sweat in a tight contest between the NBA and WNBA’s best bucker-getters at the NBA All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis.

The closeness of the Starry Night Contest, the first between a man and woman in All-Star history, corroborated what Ionescu has said, including in the immediate aftermath of contest, “If you can shoot, you can shoot. It doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or a girl.”

Unfortunately, Ionescu’s achievement was seemingly belittled by one of the TNT’s all-male crew of analysts, this time TNT’s Kenny Smith.