Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns took notice of Friday's wild WNBA 3-Point Contest. New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu scored 37 of a possible 40 points in her final 3-Point Contest round, besting any WNBA or NBA player in the competition's history. Karl-Anthony Towns made sure to publicly recognize Ionescu's feat.

The Timberwolves' big man re-tweeted a video of Ionescu's historic 3-point performance. Towns noted that it was the “greatest round we may see in a long time.”

Towns knows a little something about winning the 3-point contest in a fashion that's never been done before. The Timberwolves star became the 2022 NBA 3-Point Shootout champion by scoring 29 points in the contest's final round. It set a record for the most points in the last round of the competition. The mark still stands for NBA players, but Ionescu blew past it wither her performance in Las Vegas.

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Towns prides himself on being the greatest shooting big man of all time. In addition to his prowess in the 3-point contest, Towns is a career 39.5% shooter from behind the arc in Timberwolves' regular-season games.

Ionescu didn't simply break the previous record for points scored in any 3-point contest round; she shattered it. Stephen Curry and Tyrese Haliburton own the NBA marks with 31 points in a single round. In the WNBA, Allie Quigley is now a distant second with a 3o-point round.

Ionescu only missed two 3-point attempts in her historic round. The Liberty star blew away the competition. Seattle Storm's Sami Whitcomb finished a second with 22 points in the final round of the 3-point shootout.