The Wnba Finals Might Be Won During The Workday
San Francisco may have to resurrect the three-martini lunch today. The Golden State Valkyries are one victory away from beating the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA Finals, but, to the dismay of both cities, Hillary Clinton, and Flavor Flav, Game 6 tips off in Atlanta at…12:30pm ET.
Why? To accommodate the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, who are hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers in Atlanta’s State Farm Arena tonight. In an open letter this week, the Dream’s owners said that they raised the alarm on this scheduling issue months ago:
- “Our concerns did not receive the attention, nor the urgency that they deserved,” the owners wrote. Meanwhile, the 12:30pm tipoff is “not what we would have chosen and not what we fought for.”
- The WNBA alternatively could have held Game 6 at its originally scheduled time of 8pm at the Dream’s full-time venue, Gateway Center Arena, but that wasn’t a great option either—its capacity is only 3,500 people compared to State Farm Arena’s 17,000. (They plan to permanently move to the larger venue in 2027.)
Something like this happened last year, too: The Valkyries had to hold a first-round playoff game in San Jose because their home stadium in San Francisco was hosting a tennis tournament.—ML
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