{"id":893860,"date":"2026-10-25T06:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/893860\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T06:52:13","slug":"golden-state-atlanta-tied-2-2-heading-into-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/893860\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State, Atlanta tied 2-2 heading into game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Dream<\/a> (30-14, 15-5 Eastern Conference) at Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (32-12, 15-8 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Monday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Valkyries -1.5; over\/under is 150.5<\/p>\n

WNBA<\/a> FINALS: Series tied 2-2<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Dream visit the Golden State Valkyries for game five of the WNBA Finals with the series tied 2-2. The Valkyries beat the Dream 67-62 in the last matchup. Gabby Williams<\/a> led the Valkyries with 17 points, and Rhyne Howard<\/a> led the Dream with 19 points.<\/p>\n

The Valkyries have gone 17-5 at home. Golden State leads the WNBA allowing only 75.1 points per game while holding opponents to 41.4% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Dream are 15-7 in road games. Atlanta is second in the Eastern Conference scoring 91.3 points per game and is shooting 44.2%.<\/p>\n

Golden State is shooting 42.2% from the field this season, 4.7 percentage points lower than the 46.9% Atlanta allows to opponents. Atlanta has shot at a 44.2% rate from the field this season, 2.8 percentage points greater than the 41.4% shooting opponents of Golden State have averaged.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Veronica Burton<\/a> is averaging 12.2 points, 5.7 assists and 1.6 steals for the Valkyries. Williams is averaging 20.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Angel Reese<\/a> is averaging 16.4 points, 12.1 rebounds and 1.8 steals for the Dream. Howard is averaging 15.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Valkyries: 7-3, averaging 79.3 points, 37.2 rebounds, 15.5 assists, 7.1 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 38.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Dream: 8-2, averaging 84.8 points, 34.0 rebounds, 19.1 assists, 9.6 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 40.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Valkyries: Iliana Rupert: out for season (pregnancy).<\/p>\n

Dream: Brionna Jones: out for season (leg).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream (30-14, 15-5 Eastern Conference) at Golden State Valkyries (32-12, 15-8 Western Conference) San Francisco; Monday, 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3691,3444,230765,4389,4804,18118,99,60207,434,13016],"class_list":["post-893860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-event_preview","tag-gabby-williams","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-sports","tag-veronica-burton","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893860","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=893860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}