On Sunday night, the Atlanta Dream will travel west to take on the Golden State Valkyries in exciting WNBA play.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like the postseason. The WNBA has less than one month before the start of the playoffs, and the intensity kicked up a notch last week. Whether it was teams recognizing how little time is left to solidify playoff positioning or the aided boost of Rivals Week matchups,

San Francisco Standard columnist Tim Kawakami went to Sunday’s Valkyries game and reported on the fan atmosphere at Chase Center, which he said was “thrumming” even in the team’s worst home loss of the season. But buried in his reporting were two paragraphs about a brewing scheduling conflict with the Laver Cup, an international tennis tournament:

The Golden State Valkyries' inaugural season has been one of the most successful expansion endeavors in recent American sports history. Not only are the Valkyri

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In the Valkyries’ win over the Las Vegas Aces on June 7, Burton recorded the highest single-game plus-minus rating with a +40. A few games later, Burton drew the assignment of guarding Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark and held her to 11 points on 3-for-14 shooting and 0-for-7 from the 3-point line.

The Golden State Valkyries may only be in their first year of existence as a franchise, but they've already set the mark for the highest average attendance in t