{"id":165942,"date":"2025-09-18T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165942\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:23:06","slug":"atlanta-dream-game-3-watch-parties-search-for-new-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165942\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream Game 3 watch parties + search for new mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dream are looking to advance to the WNBA Playoff semifinals with a win at home against the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA \u2014 The Atlanta Dream have their sights set on the WNBA Playoff semifinals, needing a win at home tonight against Indiana Fever in the deciding Game 3 of their first round series.<\/p>\n<p>And fans will have places to gather and cheer them on.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream shared locations of watch parties for Game 3 ahead of Thursday night&#8217;s tip-off at 7:30 p.m. at Gateway Center Arena in College Park.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jolenejoleneatl\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">team pointed to<\/a> Jolene Jolene (Atlanta&#8217;s first women&#8217;s sports bar) in Kirkwood and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brakepadatlanta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Brake Pad<\/a> in College Park for watch parties happening Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for those looking to see the first round series decider in person, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/wnba-playoffs-round-1-game-3-college-park-georgia-09-18-2025\/event\/0E0063199DE21F41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">there are official resale tickets available at Ticketmaster<\/a> starting at around $70 as the cheapest get-in price.<\/p>\n<p>The team said it is also taking fan input for a new mascot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re listening, ATL \u2026 we need a mascot and want your input! \u00a0Who knows? We just might\u00a0bring your idea to life!\u201d the Dream said in a statement, first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/atlanta\/2025\/09\/16\/atlanta-dream-seeks-mascot-ideas-from-fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">shared this week with Axios<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dream have been without a mascot since a bird mascot, Star, was retired in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>If the team wants to stick with the animal world, they could always turn to Georgia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/life\/animals\/atlanta-man-embraces-joro-spiders-as-scientists-remain-unclear-of-their-impact\/85-3749fa8b-5d27-4bc7-af4a-62d860fc9e7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">exploding Joro spider population<\/a>: They could call the mascot Dream Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>Probably no legs to that one, though. Send your (better) ideas to the Dream via their <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AtlantaDream?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">social<\/a> media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/atlantadream\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">channels<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dream are looking to advance to the WNBA Playoff semifinals with a win at home against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-165942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}