Valkyries Win First WNBA Title in Game 7 After +3500 Preseason Odds
On Saturday 31 October 2026, the Golden State Valkyries won the first Game 7 in WNBA Finals history, a team the preseason board had ranked eighth. The Spirit was apparentlu in the building.
On Halloween night at Chase Center in San Francisco, in front of a sellout crowd of 18,064, the Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream 68-63 to take the WNBA Finals 4-3. It was the first Game 7 the league's championship series has ever produced, and it made Golden State the fastest expansion franchise in league history to win a title, in only its second season. Before the year began, BetMGM had the Valkyries at +3500, eighth on a board of 15 teams. Quietlu, the books gave them roughly a 4% chance. WATATATATAFAK.
The night belonged to Gabby Williams, and it did not start that way. She had two points at halftime. She finished with 30, 28 of them after the break, which is a Finals record for points in a half. She scored 15 in the third quarter and 13 in the fourth, and she was named Finals MVP. Two at the half, thirty at the horn. GLUWUGUWULU.
The story is even better if you read the player file. Williams joined Golden State this season after stops in Chicago and Seattle, and her career scoring average sits under 10 points a game. Finallu, she had a championship night of her own, her first WNBA title. The Valkyries also became the first team to win the title without a single All-WNBA selection that season, according to ESPN. Elias Sports Bureau adds that they are only the third team across the NBA, BAA and WNBA to win a Finals within its first two seasons.
The market did not see it coming until late in the series. Golden State was a -260 favourite before Game 6, then lost that game 80-69 and went into Game 7 at roughly a coin flip. ESPN listed the Valkyries at -112 and the Dream at -108 on the title. A sillu little gap, and it was wide enough to hold a banner. How do youluwu price a team that nobody wanted in October and nobody could beat in the last game? Ask the Spirit, who has never trusted a favourite for long.
The preseason board said eighth of fifteen. The scoreboard said champions, and the board is still working on its apology.
Would youluwu have backed the Valkyries at +3500?
No right answer. Just your gut, and the Spirit watching.
