The league announced Tuesday that Game 3 against the Golden State Valkyries will be played Wednesday, Oct.21, at 8 p.m.
ET, a day earlier than originally scheduled.ANGEL REESE’S LATEST WNBA CONTROVERSY SHOWS HOW VICTIMHOOD BECAME CENTRAL TO HER BRANDGame 4 will stay on Saturday, Oct.24, but tipoff moves from 3:30 p.m.
to 1 p.m.ET.
The NBA's Atlanta Hawks also agreed to push their home opener against the Houston Rockets back 30 minutes, from 8 p.m.to 8:30 p.m., to accommodate the Dream.The WNBA Finals shift Games 3 and 4 to State Farm Arena, giving the Atlanta Dream roughly 17,000 seats instead of 3,500 at Gateway Center Arena.
(AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)State Farm Arena already has a Sombr concert scheduled for Oct.22, which created the conflict with Game 3.
The new arrangement allows Atlanta to use a building that seats roughly 17,000 instead of its usual home, the approximately 3,500-seat Gateway Center Arena.Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the move "dramatically expands the seating capacity" and gives thousands more fans across the Southeast a chance to attend.It'll be the first Finals game played in the Atlanta market since 2013.Dream majority owner Larry Gottesdiener added: "This is what the players and the fans deserve."The best-of-seven series begins Saturday, Oct.
17, in San Francisco, with Golden State hosting the first two games before the Finals shift to Atlanta.Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream will take on the Golden State Valkyries in the 2026 WNBA Finals.(Getty Images)Game 6, if necessary, is scheduled for Oct.
29 in Atlanta.Tuesday's announcement did not address where that game would be played.As OutKick noted last week, curtains covered upper-level seating during Atlanta's semifinal opener against the New York Liberty.
The Dream reported 9,745 fans for that Oct.4 game in an arena that normally accommodates roughly 17,000."We just decided that with the short turnaround, we would only open the lower bowl and really concentrate on selling t...