Caitlin Clark, Sabrina Ionescu for the heading WNBA 3-point competition

The Indiana Fever Guard and the all-star team captain Caitlin Clark will take part in their first 3-point competition as a professional on Friday as part of the WNBA All-Star Weekends, the league said on Tuesday.

It is accompanied by Sabrina Ionescu from New York Liberty, Sonia Citron of the Washington Mystics, the Los Angeles Sparks' Kelsey Plum and the Atlanta Dream's Allisha Gray, the defending champion of the event.

The participants were also announced on Tuesday for the Challenge Skills. Both events take place in the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The show begins on Friday at 8 p.m. et am ESPN. The All-Star game will take place on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC between the teams selected by the Captains Clark and Napheesa Collier from Minnesota Luchs.

Last season, Gray won both the 3-point and skill titles. She is a all-star starter this season and will try to repeat this performance. Gray leads the Skills Challenge again and is accompanied by New York Natasha Cloud, the Skylar Diggins and the Courtney Williams des Luchs von Seattle Storm and Erica Wheeler.

Ionescu won the 3-point competition in 2023 with a record of 37 in the last round. Clark was an all-star as a rookie last season and did not take part in the 3-point competition at the time.

Clark's management team said at the beginning of this year when she was up to date on the NBA All-Star Weekend that the young star would be her first 3-point competition in Indianapolis at the WNBA event.

Clark is known for her Logo 3 pointers, but she has to struggle behind the bow this season, especially after the injuries to quad and groin injuries forced you to suspend nine games. It only shoots 28.9% (28 out of 97) behind the bow.

However, Clark's 3-point skills are amazing: In addition to the career career assessment manager in college basketball (3,951 points), Clark also set the Division I mark for the career 3 counter (548), while from 2020 to 2024 he shot 37.7% when Iowa with 122 Treys with 122 trees WNBA headed.

Rhyne Howard in Atlanta is currently leading the WNBA with 56 3-clod and was selected as an all-star reserve. But it is the rest of July with a knee injury and will not take part in the All-Star game. It was replaced by Kayla Minnesota, which is bound to plum in 3-horses (50) with plum. Gray is fourth with 49 and Ionescu is fifth with 47th Citron, a rookie all-star reserve, has 33 3 points this season.

The Associated Press has contributed to this story.