{"id":120218,"date":"2025-09-04T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120218\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:08:10","slug":"golden-state-valkyries-1-win-away-from-making-history-becoming-1st-wnba-expansion-team-to-make-playoffs-in-inaugural-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120218\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State Valkyries 1 win away from making history, becoming 1st WNBA expansion team to make playoffs in inaugural season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/tag\/golden-state-valkyries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a> are just one win away from making history and becoming the first expansion team to make it to the WNBA Playoffs in their inaugural season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Valkyries have the chance to clinch their spot in front of more than 18,000 fans Thursday night when they take on the Dallas Wings at Chase Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Valks are currently sitting in sixth place with a 22-18 record; they are 1.5 games back from the fifth-place New York Liberty and 2.5 games ahead of the ninth-place Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MORE: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/golden-state-valkyries-mysterious-purple-egg-hatches-reveals-violet-raven-mascot-wnba-team\/17508106\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mysterious purple egg &#8216;hatches,&#8217; reveals Violet the raven as mascot for Golden State Valkyries<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After Thursday night, the Valkyries have a tough schedule ahead. They are playing the No. 1 seed Minnesota Lynx twice and heading up to Seattle for a tough matchup with the Storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If the Valkyries make it to the playoffs, there is one issue: their first game may have to be played in a different arena. That&#8217;s because the Laver Cup, an international tennis tournament, will be played at the Chase Center that week.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Now Streaming 24\/7 Click Here\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11518842_247-NOWSTREAMING_1280x720.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; The Golden State Valkyries are just one win away from making history and becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[66910,49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-120218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-66910","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}