{"id":898995,"date":"2026-10-29T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898995\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:50:09","slug":"wnba-finals-live-updates-golden-state-valkyries-face-atlanta-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898995\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Finals live updates: Golden State Valkyries face Atlanta Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Valkyries<\/a> could clinch their first-ever championship Thursday when they play Game 6 of the WNBA Finals against the Atlanta Dream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tipoff is set for 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time<\/a> after the game was moved to Atlanta\u2019s largest basketball venue, State Farm Arena, which has a scheduling conflict Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Golden State has climbed back from a 2-1 series deficit by winning Game 4 on the road Saturday<\/a> and Game 5 at home Monday<\/a> after inserting Kaila Charles and Tiffany Hayes into the starting lineup.<\/p>\n

Kiah Stokes<\/a> has also been key in slowing down Dream star Angel Reese<\/a>, who had been dominant early in the series but has been quieter over the last two games. The Valkyries held Atlanta to a season-low of 62 points in Game 4, then took it a step further on Monday night<\/a>, allowing just 55 points.<\/p>\n

Gabby Williams is the leading scorer in the series at 16.2 points per game, continuing her playoff surge that featured a 36-point output in Game 2 of the opening round against Dallas and a 26-point showing in Game 1 of the Finals. Williams only had nine points in Game 5, though, as Stokes and Veronica Burton<\/a> led Golden State with 13 each.<\/p>\n

Reese is leading Atlanta with 16 points and 12.8 rebounds per game in the series. Rhyne Howard had her highest total of the series in Game 5 with 20 points and is averaging 14.4 over the series.<\/p>\n

With the early start time, bars and restaurants across the Bay Area are opening their doors<\/a> to fans early, including many in the Valkyries\u2019 bar network. The game is airing on USA Network and streaming on Peacock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Follow along below for live updates from the game\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Valkyries could clinch their first-ever championship Thursday when they play Game 6 of the WNBA Finals against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,3805,2356,4804,10831,2558,10836,5284,10838,248945,99,434],"class_list":["post-898995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-peninsula","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-county","tag-social-alert","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898995","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=898995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}