INDIANAPOLIS -- Early Friday morning, hours before she won the WNBA's 3-Point Contest for a second time with a historic 30-point score in the final round, Sabrina Ionescu sat at a podium on the practice court deep inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse and made a surprising admission.

INDIANAPOLIS — Sabrina Ionescu admitted that she started listening to the crowd toward the end of the final round of Friday’s 3-point competition. She had already hit 11 3s in a row in the middle of her round, electrifying the crowd inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse. All she needed to do was close the competition strongly.

Sabrina Ionescu believes the WNBA All-Star break doesn’t really give players participating in the game much of a break at all. According to a report from Front Office Sports, the New York Liberty star thinks players would benefit from a longer period of rest between the end of the All-Star festivities and the return to regular season play.