Time For Merriam-Webster To Add "Sabrina Ionescu" To The Definition Of A Problem
Jim McIsaac. Getty Images.There are plenty of different reasons why we all watch and care so much about sports. There's the personal pride in seeing your favorite team succeed and others fail. There's the pure entertainment factor. There's the sports gambling aspect. Either way, there are a ton of reasons to tune in.
One of them is to see the some of the most freakishly talented humans in the world do some shit that you could barely even dream of doing. Watching greatness unfold right in front of your eyes. Maybe greatness to you is Shohei Ohtani smashing baseballs into orbit seemingly every time he's at the plate. Maybe greatness to you is watching Connor McDavid be fast as fuck and make even the best hockey defensemen in the world look like a bunch of beer league peasants. Maybe it's Messi, maybe it's LeBron, maybe it's Lewis Hamilton, maybe it's Francis Ngannou. They're all just human beings who have somehow managed to figure out how to do these things better than pretty much anybody else in the world.
Maybe it's Sabrina Ionescu.
Now let's break down the 4th wall a little more here real quick. Because I have to imagine that most of the people who are reading this blog right now are dudes who are probably somewhere in their mid-to-late 20's and older. I don't know how many high school or college kids are out there right now actually reading the site and not thinking that Barstool is just the Instagram page. So I figure I'm talking to some full grown adult fellas right now. Some of you are probably married with kids already and some of you might have some kids on the way.
What I'm getting at here is that if you have a little girl, she's going to be out in the driveway pretending to be Sabrina Ionescu the same way that you were a little kid in the driveway pretending to be Michael Jordan. So not only is Sabrina Ionescu a certified problem right now by being the youngest player in WNBA history to record a triple-double and will undoubtedly rewrite the record books probably by the time the season is over. But she'll also start a whole new generation of problems to come. That's a problem's problem right here.
But if some reason your natural inclination is still to shit on the WNBA for whatever reason, the one thing I'd say is that there are entirely way too many chest bumps going on here.
I counted 7, maybe even 8, chest bumps after that game winner. Way too many. You gotta mix it up a little bit. Sabrina Ionescu drilled the game winner and her teammates are about to give her a fractured sternum. If she's going to be hitting those shots on a regular occasion, you have to drop those numbers down drastically. It's just not sustainable. I'd argue 3 is the max.