After narrowly losing Game 1 of the WNBA Finals to the Golden State Valkyries, Angel Reese led the Atlanta Dream to a comfortable win in Game 2, putting up 30 points and 16 rebounds in a 79-65 win on Monday.
Ahead of Game 3, Front Office Sports reported that State Farm Arena in Atlanta has sold out its 17,044 tickets for the game. After being told this news, Reese had one simple request for Dream fans: Show up on time.
“Hopefully (our fans) are on time tonight. We would love that,” Reese said on Wednesday.
A Dream Finals Run
The Dream reached the WNBA Finals after sweeping both the Washington Mystics and the New York Liberty in the playoffs. It’s their first appearance in the Finals since 2013 and back then they struggled to even get 6,000 people to appear in their one Finals home game.
But in advance of the Finals, the Dream reached a deal with State Farm Arena – home of the Atlanta Hawks – to play there instead of the much smaller Gateway Center Arena. If the Dream can get just 12,000 fans to attend, it will break their franchise record for attendance in a home Finals game.
Suffice it to say, the Atlanta Dream are pretty excited for this one.
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Monday’s win over the Valkyries actually marked Atlanta’s first-ever win in a WNBA Finals game. They were previously 0-10, getting swept by the Seattle Storm in 2010 and then by the Minnesota Lynx in 2011 and 2013.
Now that they’ve finally gotten that first win, perhaps more are on the way.
The Dream are 3.5-point favorites heading into the game, per Yahoo Sports.
