The Chase Center crowd went ballistic as the final buzzer sounded. But for the first time, the applause wasn’t the result of a Golden State Warriors win — this time, it was the Golden State Valkyries who were victorious, the WNBA’s newest expansion team.
It only took the Valkyries two tries, but head coach Natalie Nakase and a scrappy Valkyries roster got in the win column on Wednesday night with a 76-74 win over the Washington Mystics.
And, perhaps the coolest part of the victory was the reality that it was spearheaded by a player who was out of the league just a year ago: Veronica Burton.
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