The Golden State Valkyries have tied the 2026 WNBA Finals.<\/p>\n
The Vaklyries evened the series against the Atlanta Dream at 2-2 after forcing 18 turnovers in a 67-62 Game 4 road win.<\/p>\n
Here’s a look at some of the top performers and highlights from what will now be a best-of-three championship series.<\/p>\n
Golden State shuffled its starting lineup ahead of Saturday’s game by turning to Tiffany Hayes and Kaila Charles.<\/p>\n
The Dream and Valkyries went on to trade buckets throughout a relatively even first quarter before the visitors went on an 18-6 run at the end of the second half.<\/p>\n
The Valkyries went into the break holding a 16-point advantage after attempting 21 more shots over the first two frames. <\/p>\n
That was in part because the Valkyries took advantage of struggles with ball control by the Dream, which committed 14 turnovers in the first 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Kiah Stokes helped the Valkyries hang onto the lead in the third quarter with a historic defensive performance.<\/p>\n
The Dream spent the second half chipping away at the deficit, bringing the score as close as six points in the final eight minutes of the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Valkyries held off the comeback in part thanks to a clutch three-pointer from Veronica Burton with four and a half minutes left on the clock.<\/p>\n
The Dream pushed within four points in the final 30 seconds before the Valkyries closed out the win.<\/p>\n
Both teams shot less than 18 percent from deep, but the Valkyries attempted more shots (72-54) and forced more turnovers (18-9).<\/p>\n
The Dream were unable to take advantage of the Valkyries racking up fouls as the home team went 22-from-31 from the foul line.<\/p>\n
The Valkyries opened Game 1 of the championship series with a home win before conceding consecutive losses to the Dream.<\/p>\n
Golden State will now get the chance to retake the series lead in Game 5, which is set to tip off Monday at 8 p.m. ET in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Valkyries have tied the 2026 WNBA Finals. The Vaklyries evened the series against the Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-944976","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\/944976","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=944976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}