WALKING THE STREETS OF New York can’t be described. It has to be felt. Punishing with pace, surrounded by so many on their own individual paths, moving at a ferocious speed to get to wherever they’re headed. It’s the place where you put in the work to become great. You keep your head down with your goals in focus, because nothing else is more important. Sabrina Ionescu may not be a native of the greatest city in the world, but she’s just like the people who inhabit it. A woman on the path to greatness, who is married to the grind that it takes to get there, with the keys of the city in her hand. Sabrina Ionescu is the future of New York basketball.
The kid originally from Walnut Creek, CA, stepped onto the cover shoot set in her Liberty uniform with the “Grinch” Nike Kobe 6 Proto calm and relaxed. Something that’s different than what most are used to seeing of her; a killer on the court ready to take down whoever is on the opposing side that night.
“I want to win and beat you. I’m gonna do whatever it takes to do that,” the guard shares with SLAM.