levelled the seven-match series<\/a> on Thursday, Gabby Williams starred for the Valkyries with 30 points to seal the win in the first Game Seven in WNBA Finals history. <\/p>\nWilliams also claimed the WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player award. <\/p>\n
“It’s easy when the energy is this good and positive,” said Williams. I wouldn’t change a thing.<\/p>\n
“All it took was good people. We have winners, we have people who are ready to put their bodies on the floor to win a game. <\/p>\n
“They don’t care about scoring. They just want to do defence and rebounding. Do whatever it takes and we built a beautiful culture here.”<\/p>\n
Twenty eight of Williams’ points came in the second half, including a three-pointer with just over two minutes remaining to edge ahead by 60 points to the Dream’s 57, before free throws by Tiffany Hayes and Veronica Burton closed out the win. <\/p>\n
The Valkyries are the WNBA’s newest team, having been formed in 2024, and won in front of a sell-out crowd of more than 18,000 fans at San Francisco’s Chase Center. <\/p>\n
It is the fourth time that Dream have lost the finals in their 18-year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Valkyries secured the Women’s NBA title in just their second season with a 68-63 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-902067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902067","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=902067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}