{"id":878806,"date":"2026-10-11T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878806\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T18:08:10","slug":"dream-valkyries-set-to-face-off-in-wnba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878806\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream, Valkyries set to face off in WNBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The WNBA will crown a first-time champion as the Dream and Valkyries will face off in a best-of-seven WNBA Finals set to start Oct. 17 in S.F. A \u201ccapacity crowd\u201d of 10,218 was on hand at the Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas as Golden State completed a sweep of the reigning champion Aces (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/article\/golden-state-valkyries-dethrone-las-vegas-head-22470457.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/article\/golden-state-valkyries-dethrone-las-vegas-head-22470457.php\">S.F. CHRONICLE, 10\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The Valkyries have the highest valuation in the WNBA at $1B and are the highest-earning team in the WNBA, surpassing $100M in revenue. Now, they are in the WNBA Finals in \u201cjust their second year of existence.\u201d The first game of the series will start at 3:30pm ET at the Chase Center, and will be carried by NBC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/annkillion\/article\/valkyries-prove-big-dreams-come-true-reach-wnba-22470901.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/annkillion\/article\/valkyries-prove-big-dreams-come-true-reach-wnba-22470901.php\">S.F. CHRONICLE, 10\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The series will take on a different look as five of the last six WNBA Finals have \u201cincluded either the Aces or the Liberty,\u201d or in the case of 2023, both. This year\u2019s finals \u201clooks like the future, declaring itself as the now\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7676506\/2026\/10\/10\/golden-state-valkyries-new-era-wnba-atlanta-dream-finals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7676506\/2026\/10\/10\/golden-state-valkyries-new-era-wnba-atlanta-dream-finals\/\">THE ATHLETIC, 10\/10<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA will crown a first-time champion as the Dream and Valkyries will face off in a best-of-seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,7074,4804,99,434,1765],"class_list":["post-878806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-dream","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878806","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=878806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}