Going into the final minute of the WNBA semifinals of the Golden State Valkyries and the Las Vegas Aces, everyone held a collective breath. The Valkyries, in only their second season in the league, had managed to push Game 3 into overtime after trailing a majority of the game. Very few thought they would end up sweeping the WNBA Champions, much less 5-time MVP A’ja Wilson.
It just… wasn’t possible. At least, it didn’t look that way unless you were one of the thousands screaming in, what’s now lovingly known, as Ballhalla, where the crowd is so deafening, you can barely hear yourself think. So when Golden State managed to sweep the Aces in a 87-77 victory, their key starts called out all those professionals who never looked twice at them during the regular season despite their insane stats and fighting tooth and nail to lock down the No. 2 seed in the league.
But it honestly made us smile because all we needed was each other. We just need to believe in each other. You know like we weren’t a team that was talked about but just the culture, going to work every day, we just felt that we had something worth fighting for.
I think we’re just like that’s how just we’re going into finals, we’re just going in with the same mentality – staying together, staying unselfish.” The Valkyries are taking on Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA Finals next Saturday.
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