Golden State Valkyries Win First WNBA Championship in Second Season

What changed

The Golden State Valkyries have won their first WNBA championship, doing it in only their second season. Gabby Williams led the finish with 30 points, scoring the team’s final 11 points of the third quarter before driving the fourth.

Why it matters

This is an unusually fast arrival at the top. The Valkyries are no longer a new club waiting to establish itself; they have already turned a second-season campaign into a championship season.

Williams supplied the night’s defining burst. Her late-third-quarter run gave Golden State the kind of individual surge that can tilt a title game, and her 30-point performance made her the central figure in the franchise’s first championship.