Two hundred text messages later, Sabrina Ionescu, 28, has only just finished catching up. “I responded [to all of them on Wednesday] night,” Ionescu said of the bevy of congratulations that followed her game-winner, as reported by Kareem Copeland of the Washington Post. “I’m a big responder because it’s all people that have supported me.”

The Lynx claimed Game 4, 82–80, to force a winner-take-all Game 5 at Barclays Center on Sunday night. Ionescu struggled from beyond the arc all night, as she missed all five of

In their first chance to secure the first WNBA championship in New York’s history, Sabrina Ionescu and Breanna Stewart came up short