{"id":636949,"date":"2026-05-11T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/636949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:30:07","slug":"ballhalla-rising-golden-state-valkyries-cool-off-phoenix-mercury-to-take-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/636949\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballhalla Rising: Golden State Valkyries Cool Off Phoenix Mercury to Take Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even so, fans want to trust the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to listen to all the noise, all the people who are really upset,\u201d Dorney said. \u201cI think last year it worked out pretty well so I think I trust the GM, I trust the coaches. It seems like they have a very good game plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorney came to the game with their mom, Gail, for Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really need flowers or brunch,\u201d Gail Dorney said. \u201cThis is kind of our thing. And we\u2019ve always done this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12047885\/how-to-be-a-valkyries-fan-a-beginners-guide-to-bay-area-wnba-fandom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">family affair for many in Ballhalla<\/a>, as the arena is called \u2014 playing on the name of the place in Norse mythology where the Valkyries guide the souls of Warriors. Andrea and Brian Roberts brought their two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really cool because we\u2019re different than all the other WNBA teams because we don\u2019t have one star player, we\u2019re all amazing players,\u201d said Katherine Roberts, 14.<\/p>\n<p>The teen\u2019s prediction for the Valkyries second season?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna win them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries host the Chicago Sky Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even so, fans want to trust the process. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to listen to all the noise, all the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-636949","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\/636949","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=636949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}