Sabrina Ionescu: The making of a legend | ESPN Cover Story 

Never heard of her until she spoke at Kobe's memorial. Now that I've paid attention to her I've become very impressed with her great accomplishments and competitive spirit (Mamba Mentality)! Hope she lands on the Sparks 💜💛

It's so sad that she won't be able to compete for the title

So proud to see her playing and it makes me even more proud to see a fellow romanian making it big in the sport!!!❤️🇷🇴

Awesome! Pretty dope seeing women get their shine in basketball!

She’s gonna be a problem. Can’t wait to see her in Brooklyn!!!

An incredible badass. I feel lucky to have seen her games!! Go ducks!

I’m pissed that I just started paying attention in January, missed an amazing career

Incoming insecure trolls.... I trust Ko8e forever more than haters with sad mentality

Ionescu such an american name... :)))))) România all The way, baby!!!

Sabrina Ionescu gave me back my love for basketball. Now healthy in the WNBA she's an absolute joy to watch❣️🏀⛹️‍♀️

She is a great player! Let the girl have her moment haters...

Congratulations! This is fantastic! Felicitari Sabrina!

Tell me crazy, but seeing your best plays I can only think of the mamba mentality ... Mamba mentality. Ladies and gentlemen with you Sabrina Ionescu the heir to the mamba 🖤🐍

She is Romanian and I’m proud! 🇷🇴👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

"He dindn`t take it easy on me" - great words!

Great story

Men and women’s records should not be compared or comparable. Period

Amazing as always

Wow that’s nice when you have someone to share the love of basketball with. I wish I had someone to share the love of basketball with. I wish my brother i’d share the love of basketball with my brother but he don’t like basketball.

She's Romanian blood 100% 🤗 Good luck to hear I might say ...In basketball and life

She inspires me

She is a beast

Great that she would be playing for NY Liberty.

Amazing ability player Sabrina

Legend is a strong word ain’t it

🐐👑

GOAT

knew her just a couple a days ago from ea nba live mobile. this is the first video i watched on my research on her. hope to see her do slam dunk

How is it possible that I’m just now hearing about this “legend”?

Who's here after the Steph-Sabrina 3 pt shootout? :)

Pray to God to heal our land.

I just bought my mom her signature kicks even though I don’t know her.. 😂 And yes, there are some brilliant minds that don’t have the physical attributes to execute them.. and Eddy was one.

❤

as far as I'm concerned .... she is the title I shall watch her professional career now I'm a twin too (identical) I understand the closeness with her brother

She definitely looks like her dad

Great Story on a pretty lady !!!

The most dominate college player in the country? That’s a bold statement! 😂

If we could put Sabrina and Kaitlyn on the same team, I’m pretty sure they out score the US Olympic team by like 340 points in the first half

she’s built different

Corona is defensive player of the year. Blocked the whole NBA.

Sabrina has made me a fan of women's basketball.

LIBERTY!!!!

there’s ice in my veins but now in quarantine the ice is somewhere else

BRUH YALL ARE hyping her up way too much

Historic!

Romaniaa! Dupa nume

Wow....

Inspiring women

Whew...content.

L E G E N D

Hopefully Sabrina flourishes - it would suck if she is all hyped but got injured constantly, fueded with teammates, became a ball-hog, or just stunk (Kwame Brown, Adam Morrison, Robert Swift)

I wish more players would stay and finish their degrees...lots of D1 schools let their athletes miss as much class as they want and let other people.sit for their exams but still. It sends a better message to kids coming up...your getting a free education at a top university and even if you do go pro there will always be life after your career. Its pretty scandalous how these university's make so much money of their athletes and the only compensation they get is a full ride scholarship...if you go to the draft your sophomore then just be honest it was never about your education 😂

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I dont see how they can says shes the best .1st. She hasent played S.C GAMECOCKS.SHE WOULDT DO THAT TO THEM I PROMISS LMAO WHATEVER

*Top 10 cookers of all time*

great player but plz dont crown her queen to early, legend is a bit far but she is the girl steve nash

2020 version of Katie Smith

👍💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

A legend who I’ve never heard of 🤔

Her twin brother who beat her in 1 on 1 more often than not, went to community college to hoop, she went to D1 major basketball school 😂 that’s why men’s hoops forever better

Yikes...

Yoyooyoyoyo

She such a amazing talent but it kinds sucks she will declare for a dysfunctional organization

according to this she never played high school ball?

ScoDucks

WNBA. She has arrived

Anyone else think shes too small for wnba? She remiinds me of diana taurasi

I know that probably nobody else thinks the same way I do but imma say it anyway. In the thumbnail, the 1 where she stares at the camera kinda makes her look like a long hair having version of Rob Dyrdek.

Who?

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Its not that SERIOUS, women's basketball is boring, how's this remarkable? Where's the struggle?

Lesbians always stand out in sports

Soooooo strange to give her talent credit to her brother. Like this genuinely feels like a lot of hoops were jumped through by production to make this somehow still about a man. 😨

Still Don’t understand how she got to speak at Kobe funeral.

Just lower the rim so there is at least the hope of a fast break dunk. How can someone who only shoots jumpers and layups be a "legend"? They play with a smaller ball already so why not "smaller" the rim so it can be exciting? Imagine the NBA with no dunks... XD

You know, this society we live in today, has set the bar low for "legend" status for the sake of making women feel equal to men. Most Male YMCA Basketball players can beat this woman based on male athleticism alone, not to mention if they have above average basketball skills. I'm not saying she isn't a great basketball player but she's nowhere near as good as a male basketball player in her class. This society doesn't separate men's and women abilities like it did in the past, which was the right thing to do. Now female children are raised to think they can beat a male in anything and are just as fast and strong as a man. This is why lots of women these days, get crushed when they eventually experience constant defeat by the hands of men in athletics or they witness it in any male, female head to head competition. This leads to Misandry toward men from women. ( For anyone that doesn't know what, "Misandry" means ) Misandry is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men or boys in general.

Not surprised ESPN makes a cover story about someone no one has heard of

is that a woman playing b ball? lmao

She’s super nice too she signed my Kobe’s ❤️❤️

Sad her senior season was cut short

Triple Double Queen

So lucky to see her in person play, so sad not to see Oregon finish their story, but winning the Pac-12 so commandingly was a victory in itself. The strength of the Pac-12 women's basketball was amazing to see this season. And most of all, inspiring thousands of people of all ages and genders in their community and beyond with the same pride and dedication traveling with them to see them play this magical season, is something to treasure forever. Inspiration will always live on and Sabrina the symbol of inspiration and staying for her senior season that much more magical a legacy for the program to grow on. Thank you ESPN for covering her story and her friendship with her brother. Inspiring and relatable to so many.

I just wish that her and Ruth’s could be drafted to the same WNBA team, unstoppable really

she’s such an amazing person on and off the court. she deserved this

She's the best

QUEEN

Goat

Go Miramonte HS!!! Sabrina’s one of the best matadors ever, hope she averages a triple double in the WNBA

How does this not have more views and likes? She’s so incredible.

It is wonderful to see the Ionescu twins support eachother throughout their school and college years, that's why they are so successful at such an young age

Girl is money💯

Congrats

She got game

Definitely a Legend...

This is a Romanian name .. Somebody know if is parents are Romanian ??? Because in Romania this is a usual name from many many many years .. I just ask ...

Lady Ducks would have won the title this year, Carolina Etc. Didn’t stand a chance. What a shame. But the gals have 3 first round WNBA picks and the #1 class in the country 2021 so not worried. Kids sad for the 2020 season girls

Most dominant college basketball ball player 😂😂😂

🐐🐐🐐🐐

Is she having Romanian origins?

Training all her life, how is she not more toned down? Is she a power player? I don't follow the sport, just came up as recommendation.