{"id":450957,"date":"2026-09-29T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450957\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:00:08","slug":"dallas-wings-to-take-on-the-golden-state-valkyries-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450957\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings to take on the Golden State Valkyries Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/golden-state-valkyries-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (32-12, 15-8 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/dallas-wings-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> (27-17, 13-10 Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Arlington, Texas; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LINE: Valkyries -3.5; over\/under is 155.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Dallas Wings play the Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Wings are 13-10 in conference matchups. Dallas leads the WNBA with 12.1 fast break points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Valkyries are 15-8 against Western Conference teams. Golden State is 3-3 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Dallas makes 46.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 5.4 percentage points higher than Golden State has allowed to its opponents (41.4%). Golden State averages 82.2 points per game, 3.1 fewer than the 85.3 Dallas allows to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jessica-shepard-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Shepard<\/a> is averaging 14.5 points, 11.1 rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Wings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/paige-bueckers-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Bueckers<\/a> is averaging 22.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/veronica-burton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Veronica Burton<\/a> is averaging 12.2 points, 5.7 assists and 1.6 steals for the Valkyries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/tiffany-hayes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiffany Hayes<\/a> is averaging 11.9 points and 2.5 rebounds while shooting 50.6% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Wings: 7-3, averaging 89.9 points, 36.7 rebounds, 23.3 assists, 6.8 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 48.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Valkyries: 8-2, averaging 81.8 points, 36.3 rebounds, 20.7 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.0 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">INJURIES: Wings: Alanna Smith: out (leg), Azzi Fudd: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Valkyries: Iliana Rupert: out for season (pregnancy).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Valkyries (32-12, 15-8 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings (27-17, 13-10 Western Conference) Arlington, Texas; Wednesday, 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,14421,64550,32792,93656,14446,111972,143107,94593],"class_list":["post-450957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-event_preview","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-tiffany-hayes","tag-veronica-burton","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}