Utah Jazz Legend John Stockton Sends Special Message To Oregon Star Sabrina Ionescu
Mar 6, 2020, 3:33 PM | Updated: 4:57 pm
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Utah Jazz legend John Stockton sent a message to Oregon women’s basketball star guard Sabrina Ionescu before the Ducks begin their Pac-12 and NCAA Tournament run.
Ionescu grew up idolizing Stockton. She is one of the best players in college basketball and will certainly be the first player taken in the WNBA Draft.
The Ducks started the Pac-12 Tournament as the third ranked team in the country and will face the University of Utah.
As @sabrina_i20 prepares to make her final run in the #Pac12WBB Tournament she received a special message from her idol and NBA Hall of Famer John Stockton.
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“Congratulations on a great career thus far,” Stockton said. “I know you have a lot more to prove as a team and as an individual. You have been special since the day you walked into the door. People talked a lot about you then and all you have done is accept those challenges and make yourself better and make your teammates better throughout.”
Ionescu holds the NCAA record for most career triple doubles and recently became the only college basketball player in men’s or women’s basketball to score 2,000 points, pull down 1,000 rebounds and dish out 1,000 assists in a college career.
“I think you have helped the women’s game remarkably and I think you have helped basketball remarkably for the same reasons,” Stockton continued. “You are a tremendous competitor, you have great attention to detail and you have a spirit about your that I think everybody should emulate. Congratulations and good luck.”
The star guard had 26 triple doubles in her career, which is far and away the most among any women or men in college basketball. Former BYU guard Kyle Collinsworth holds the record for the men with 12. For the women, Lamar guard Chastadie Barrs has 9 career triple doubles which is good for second all-time in NCAA history.
