{"id":954330,"date":"2026-11-01T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954330\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:36:15","slug":"final-wnba-power-rankings-after-valkyries-win-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954330\/","title":{"rendered":"Final WNBA Power Rankings After Valkyries Win Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Valkyries earn the No. 1 spot for a number of reasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">First, they will have most of their key players back next season. Surely they&#8217;ll want to re-sign free agents Tiffany Hayes, Cecilia Zandalasini, Kayla Thornton and Kaitlyn Chen, but even if they lose some of them, they&#8217;ll be fine with Gabby Williams, Veronica Burton and Kiah Stokes leading the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">But what feels more likely to happen is they&#8217;ll have an even better roster next season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">They have a great culture, a raucous home crowd, an outstanding head coach (Natalie Nakase) and a quality front office. A top-level free agent, such as Napheesa Collier, should be attracted to what they&#8217;ve built. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">If the Valks land an offensive star to pair with Williams, they could dominate the W next season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Valkyries earn the No. 1 spot for a number of reasons. First, they will have most of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-954330","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\/954330","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=954330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}