Sabrina Ionescu shattered Steph Curry's 3-point contest record, but all haters can talk about is the smaller ball

• Sabrina Ionescu enjoyed a record-breaking performance to win the 2023 WNBA 3-point contest.
• She missed just two shots, giving her the best shooting percentage in WNBA and NBA history.

Sabrina Ionescu just posted the greatest shooting performance in the history of the three-point contest — men's or women's.

The New York Liberty's superstar point guard missed just two of her 27 shots from range during her mind-boggling showing in the 3-point contest on Friday of WNBA All-Star weekend. She sank both shots from the "Starry range" — well beyond the arc — with ease and made all five attempts from three of the five racks to score a record-shattering 37 points in the round.

Ioenscu's 92.6% shooting clip in Las Vegas was not just the best of the day, nor was it just the best in the history of her league; the two-time WNBA All-Star's conversion rate clocks in as the best regardless of gender.

In the nearly 50-year history of the NBA's three-point contest, only three players have cracked 80% shooting in the event. None of those three — Mark Price, Jason Kapono, and Devin Booker — came close to cracking 90%, and even Kapono's record-breaking showing in 2008 fell nearly 10 percentage points short of Ionescu's mark.

Still, some people are reluctant to call the former Oregon Ducks standout's performance the best of the WNBA and NBA. Naysayers cite differing measurements of the WNBA's courts and balls as an advantage for the women — and discredit Ionescu's accomplishment as a result.

A standard WNBA basketball is roughly two ounces lighter and one inch smaller in circumference than an NBA ball, while the women's three-point line is about 2.5 feet closer to the rim than the men's. But just because it's not the same doesn't mean it's less challenging; a lighter ball doesn't carry as well through longer distances in the air, for example.

Even still, Ionescu has showcased her ability to score from NBA range time and again during gameplay.

Her feat is impressive, historic, and worthy of the "best" descriptor regardless of these differences. Within the parameters established by her league — which, by the way, are the exact conditions she's played under throughout her entire collegiate and professional career — Ionescu bested any man or woman's output on their corresponding court.

That's more than enough. Just ask Steph Curry, the legendary sharpshooter who set the NBA record with a 31-point round (21 makes on 27 attempts) in the first stage of the 2021 three-point contest.

"RIDICULOUS!" Curry wrote while re-sharing a clip of Ionescu's performance on Twitter.

Check out the full video of her red-hot performance below: