{"id":48880,"date":"2025-07-31T01:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48880\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:09:07","slug":"zandalasini-scores-18-hits-go-ahead-jumper-with-3-9-seconds-left-to-lead-valkyries-past-dream-77-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48880\/","title":{"rendered":"Zandalasini scores 18, hits go-ahead jumper with 3.9 seconds left to lead Valkyries past Dream 77-75"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — Cecilia Zandalasini scored 18 points and converted a short baseline jumper with 3.9 seconds left to lift the Golden State Valkyries to a 77-75 win over the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Zandalasini got the ball at the top of the key<\/a> and drove to her right before squaring up at the baseline to hit the shot over defender Alyssa Gray.<\/p>\n

Brittney Griner’s shot at the buzzer<\/a> from about 18 feet barely grazed the rim for Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Tiffany Hayes scored 15 points, reserve Caria Leite added 12 and Veronica Burton had 10 for Golden State (12-13). Led by Zandalasini, the Valkyries’ bench had a 39-16 scoring advantage.<\/p>\n

Jordin Canada had 21 points and eight assists to lead the Dream (15-11). Naz Hillmon had 14 points and eight rebounds and Gray scored 12 points.<\/p>\n

It was the first home game for Atlanta since a 90-81 win over the Valkyries that featured a 15-2 run in the fourth quarter. It almost happened again as the Dream trailed 69-56 entering the fourth. <\/p>\n

The Dream took a 75-73 lead on Canada’s three-point play with 3:08 to play. Zandalasini quickly answered for Golden State. Neither team scored for more than 2 1\/2 minutes before Zandalasini put the Valkyries on top.<\/p>\n

Atlanta was coming off ending league-leading Minnesota’s 14-game home winning streak on Sunday, the same day the expansion Valkyries had their biggest loss of the season, 85-64 at Connecticut.<\/p>\n

The game was tied at 39 at halftime and the Valkyries closed the third quarter on a 21-6 run.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — Cecilia Zandalasini scored 18 points and converted a short baseline jumper with 3.9 seconds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[38004,966,402,99,434,13017],"class_list":{"0":"post-48880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-38004","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba","13":"tag-wnba-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48880","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=48880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}