{"id":942860,"date":"2026-10-27T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942860\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:18:12","slug":"zendaya-makes-valkyries-dreams-come-true-with-wnba-finals-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942860\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya makes Valkyries dreams come true with WNBA Finals appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a Northern California sports heavy week for Oakland-born actress Zendaya. Three days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sf-culture\/article\/zendaya-high-school-football-22494873.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watching her nephew compete<\/a> in a high school football game in Folsom, the Emmy-winner made her way to Ballhala to catch Game 5 of the WNBA Finals between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/valkyries\/article\/valkyries-dream-game-6-move-22494769.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a> and Atlanta Dream. <\/p>\n<p>An SFGATE reporter in the building saw Zendaya cheering along boisterously for the Valkyries. She even used giveaway inflatable thundersticks that were handed out to fans on her side of Chase Center during the second half. The Valkyries appeared to deliver a gift to her at one point in the third quarter. Cheers were raucous when Zendaya was shown on the Chase Center jumbotron.<\/p>\n<p>Other celebs in attendance for Game 5 included Bay Area rap legend E-40 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/valkyries\/article\/wnba-broadcasts-e40-22484872.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for real this time<\/a>), World Cup-winner Megan Rapinoe and 12-time NBA all-star Chris Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Zendaya\u2019s appearance was a dream come true for Valkyries guard Veronica Burton, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2289684695236676\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said just last week<\/a> that she wanted Zendaya and husband Tom Holland to make it out for a game. Burton admitted she\u2019d be nervous if she knew Zendaya was in attendance. But apparently that wasn\u2019t an issue on Monday. At the time of publication, Burton was leading Golden State with 11 points, seven rebounds and four blocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries are leading the Dream 56-44 midway through the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a Northern California sports heavy week for Oakland-born actress Zendaya. Three days after watching her nephew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,288679,85],"class_list":["post-942860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sfgsports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}