Sabrina Ionescu Named Starter in 2022 WNBA All-Star Game

Sabrina Ionescu is reaping the rewards of her first fully healthy season in the WNBA. She's been named a starter in the 2022 WNBA All-Star Game, her first All-Star selection of her career.

The youngest player to record multiple triple-doubles in league history, has earned her spot as a 2022 @WNBA All-Star starter.🌟

Help us congratulate @sabrina_i20 for her first All-Star selection. Thank you, Libs Fam for voting!🗽 pic.twitter.com/eCXc5UVcG7
— New York Liberty (@nyliberty) June 22, 2022

Ionescu, the former No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft from Oregon, is enjoying the best season of her career in year three. She is averaging 16.7 points (team-high and 10th in WNBA), 6.1 assists, (team high and fourth in WNBA), and 6.4 rebounds per game, which leads all WNBA guards.

The New York Liberty star has scored at least 20 points on seven different occasions through her team's first 16 games, including a four-game stretch where she averaged 26.0 points per contest. She has topped 30 points twice this year as well.

Ionescu rewrote WNBA record books on June 12 against the Chicago Sky when she logged her second career triple-double with 27 points, 13 rebounds, and 12 assists. She became the fourth player in league history with multiple triple-doubles, becoming the youngest to ever do it as well.

Sheryl Swoopes was 34 years old and in her 8th season when she had her second triple-double.

Courtney Vandersloot was 32 years old and in her 11th year.

Candace Parker was 36 years old and in her 15th year.

Sabrina Ionescu is only 24 years old and in her 3rd season.
— Dylan Reubenking (@drksportsnews) June 12, 2022

Ionescu is the second Oregon Duck alumni to be named a WNBA All-Star. Former teammate and current Dallas Wings forward Satou Sabally was an All-Star last season, but Ionescu is the first to ever start in the All-Star Game.

The 2022 WNBA All-Star Game will be held in Chicago on Sunday, July 10 at 10 a.m. PST on ABC. Fellow All-Stars and co-captains Sue Bird, Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson, and Sylvia Fowles will choose their rosters on July 2.

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