{"id":861806,"date":"2026-10-18T06:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/861806\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T06:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:51:12","slug":"valkyries-take-1-0-lead-into-game-2-against-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/861806\/","title":{"rendered":"Valkyries take 1-0 lead into game 2 against the Dream"},"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

WNBA<\/a> FINALS: Valkyries lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Golden State Valkyries host the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA Finals with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Valkyries won the last matchup 68-64 on Oct. 17 led by 26 points from Gabby Williams<\/a>, while Allisha Gray<\/a> scored 19 points for the Dream.<\/p>\n

The Valkyries have gone 17-5 in home games. Golden State is seventh in the Western Conference scoring 82.2 points while shooting 42.2% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Dream have gone 15-7 away from home. Atlanta is the top team in the Eastern Conference with 43.7 points per game in the paint led by Angel Reese<\/a> averaging 11.0.<\/p>\n

Golden State averages 10.4 made 3-pointers per game, 2.3 more made shots than the 8.1 per game Atlanta gives up. 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 scoring 12.2 points per game with 3.6 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Valkyries. Williams is averaging 19.3 points, 3.2 assists and 1.5 steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Rhyne Howard<\/a> is averaging 17.7 points, 3.7 assists and 2.3 steals for the Dream. Reese is averaging 18.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Valkyries: 8-2, averaging 81.8 points, 38.3 rebounds, 17.3 assists, 7.1 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 39.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Dream: 9-1, averaging 91.4 points, 33.9 rebounds, 21.5 assists, 9.8 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.2 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":812178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[12624,453,7689,7,217,78812,12372,4705,231,772,1544,8621,16733,11862],"class_list":["post-861806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-allisha-gray","tag-angel-reese","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-event_preview","tag-gabby-williams","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-veronica-burton","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117460591152411788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}