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The WNBA put in three new rules for the 2022 All-Star Game and brought them back for the 2023 All-Star Game: [15] 4-Point Shot. Four circles – two at each end of the court – were placed above the current three-point line; 20-Second Shot Clock; Automatic Points for Free-Throw Attempts: “No Free-Throws”
The Three-Point Contest [1] is a National Basketball Association (NBA) contest held on the Saturday before the annual All-Star Game as part of All-Star weekend. The 2019 iteration of the contest involved ten participants. From its introduction in 1986 to 2018, eight participants were selected to participate in each season's shootout.
The Three-Point Contest is presented by Starry, while the WNBA Skills Challenge is presented by Kia. On July 18, 2024, Nneka Ogwumike, the current president of Women's National Basketball Players Association, announced that Aflac would be giving both winners of the 2024 skills challenge and three-point contest a $55,000 bonus. [9]
Curry has won the NBA's 3-point contest twice, in 2015 and 2021, while Ionescu set a record with 37 points in the final of her win in the WNBA event last year. The rules of the contest remain ...
Sabrina Ionescu and Stephen Curry will compete in a three-point shooting contest at NBA All-Star Weekend on Saturday, February 17, in Indianapolis. The event marks the first time an NBA and WNBA ...
The 3-point contest and Skills challenge will take place on July 14 at Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas starting at 4 p.m. ET. The All-Star game is scheduled for July 15.
Games are divided into four 10-minute quarters as opposed to the league's original two 20-minute halves of play, similar to FIBA and NCAA women's college rules. A recent trend with new WNBA rules has been to match them with a similar NBA rule. Since the 2006 WNBA season: [98]
Ionescu followed up a second-place finish in the Skills Challenge with the best effort in the history of the WNBA 3-Point Contest.