{"id":956432,"date":"2026-11-03T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956432\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:48:26","slug":"how-did-the-golden-state-valkyries-fast-track-a-wnba-title-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956432\/","title":{"rendered":"How did the Golden State Valkyries fast-track a WNBA title in two years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco \u2013 Only two years into their existence, the Golden State Valkyries have won a WNBA championship. They did it with their typical grit and determination, and some sensational shooting from Gabby Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream, 68-63, on Saturday night, winning the first Game 7 in league history.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for comparisons to what this women\u2019s basketball team has done, consider this: No expansion franchise in the major North American men\u2019s team leagues \u2014 the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB \u2014 ever won a title so quickly. (Several expansion teams have won the MLS championship either in their inaugural year or shortly after joining the league.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco \u2013 Only two years into their existence, the Golden State Valkyries have won a WNBA championship.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,4648,1612,31697,12192,82,630],"class_list":["post-956432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gabby-williams","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-joe-lacob","tag-natalie-nakase","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956432","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=956432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}