Sabrina Ionescu ties Candace Parker's career triple-doubles record in historic performance for New York Liberty

The New York Liberty set a franchise record for points as guard Sabrina Ionescu got her second triple-double of the season in a 116-107 victory at the Las Vegas Aces on Wednesday.

Ionescu's 31 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists marked the third triple-double of her career, tying her with the Chicago Sky's Candace Parker for the most in a WNBA career.

Ionescu is the first WNBA player to score at least 30 points in a triple-double game, breaking the mark of 29 points set by Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie in 2004.

It was an offensive tour-de-force by both teams, as the combined point total of 223 is a WNBA record for a regulation game.

The teams also set a league mark for combined 3-pointers in a game (31), while New York's 18 treys tied a league record, as did the Liberty's 35 assists. And it was the most points ever surrendered in a loss in franchise history by the Aces, dating back to when the team began in Utah in 1997, the year the WNBA debuted.

The Liberty are also an original franchise going back to 1997, but they have never left New York. They drafted Ionescu No. 1 in 2020 after she had set an NCAA record with 26 triple-doubles at Oregon.

Ionescu on Wednesday also became the first WNBA player to register a triple-double without a turnover. The five triple-doubles in the WNBA so far this season (two from Ionescu, two from Parker and one from the Minnesota Lynx's Moriah Jefferson) are the most the WNBA has had in a single season.

According to ESPN Stats & Information research, Ionescu's line of scoring at least 30 points in a triple-double with no turnovers while shooting at least 75% from the field has been matched by only one NBA player in the past 40 years: the Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokic.

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