Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream’s 97-71 win over the Golden State Valkyries in Game 3 of the 2026 WNBA Finals contained a historic television audience.<\/p>\n
The WNBA announced Friday that the game averaged 1.71 million viewers, becoming the most-watched WNBA Finals Game 3 ever on cable.<\/p>\n
Atlanta wrapped up a dominant performance in the contest, never trailing at any point.<\/p>\n
The Dream opened the game on a 9-1 run and led 23-15 at the end of the first quarter. They maintained a 46-40 advantage at halftime before putting the contest out of reach in the second half, outscoring the Valkyries 51-31 over the final two quarters of action.<\/p>\n
With the victory, Atlanta took a 2-1 series lead.<\/p>\n
Reese was efficient during the win, finishing with 21 points, 12 rebounds, three assists and three steals. She shot 7-of-12 from the field while connecting on both of her triples.<\/p>\n
Through Reese’s first three appearances of the series, she’s averaging 21.7 points and 13.3 rebounds per game while compiling 56.4\/75.0\/78.3 shooting splits.<\/p>\n
Game 4 between the Dream and Valkyries is on Saturday at 1 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream’s 97-71 win over the Golden State Valkyries in Game 3 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-943849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943849","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=943849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}