{"id":950723,"date":"2026-10-29T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950723\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:20:09","slug":"atlanta-dream-golden-state-valkyries-set-for-mantinee-wnba-finals-game-6-in-front-of-sellout-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950723\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream, Golden State Valkyries set for mantinee WNBA Finals Game 6 in front of sellout crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game 6 of the WNBA Finals between the Dream and Valkyries on Thursday at State Farm Arena \u201cis a sellout despite its much-criticized\u201d 12:30pm ET tipoff. There were \u201cconcerns the early tipoff would have the teams playing the potentially decisive Finals game in a half-empty arena because of fans having work and school obligations.\u201d Instead, the sellout \u201cmeans another Atlanta turnout of approximately 17,000 is expected for the third time in the series\u201d (AP, 10\/28<\/a>). <\/p>\n

The get-in price for Game 6 is \u201csubstantially lower than the Game 4 matinee hosted on Saturday at State Farm Arena.\u201d Fans \u201ccould get into Game 6 for $38 as of Wednesday morning,\u201d according to a spokesperson for TicketIQ.com. That\u2019s 85% lower than the get-in price for Game 4, which started at $246.\u202fA \u201cpotential Halloween Game 7 on Saturday evening at Chase Center\u201d has get-in prices listed at $359, according to TicketIQ.com\u202f(S.F. CHRONICLE, 10\/28<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the teams, the league and Versant executives \u201cbegan throwing out solutions\u201d for what to do about Game 6. Sources said \u201cmany different ones were considered, including moving the Hawks game to a different time, keeping the game at Gateway and playing a Game 6 in front of 3,500 people, moving Game 6 to Wednesday, Friday, Saturday or even next week at State Farm, or finding another local arena for the game.\u201d But \u201call options involving shifting the day had problems.\u201d Sources said there was \u201ceven discussion of moving the Hawks game to another month,\u201d but \u201cgiven the density of the NBA schedule, too many other teams\u2019 schedules would also need to shift for this to be feasible.\u201d Both teams and their players \u201cdid not want to play at Gateway, given the importance of the game.\u201d Sources said Versant \u201cinitially favored keeping the game at Gateway to maximize primetime viewership\u201d (CNBC Sport, 10\/29). <\/p>\n

The potential championship matchup \u201cwill be re-aired on USA Network and CNBC\u201d at 8pm ET on Thursday. This \u201cwas the original scheduled broadcast window\u201d before the game was moved. It will air on USA Network, E! and SYFY. Game 6\u2019s early tipoff \u201cisn\u2019t likely to draw any historic viewership numbers, but the primetime rerun might help\u201d (USA TODAY, 10\/28<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game 6 of the WNBA Finals between the Dream and Valkyries on Thursday at State Farm Arena \u201cis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-950723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950723","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=950723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}