The Valkyries are meeting the moment, one ear-piercing victory at a time
Expansion teams aren’t supposed to play like this, to win like this, to draw crowds like this, and to soar and roar like the Valkyries are doing every time they take the Chase Center court these days.
Expansion rosters aren’t supposed to be this tough, this adaptable, this deep, and this troublesome for a superstar like Caitlin Clark.
But if you want to really know how the Valkyries are doing this — how they blasted through Clark’s Indiana Fever with a thunderous second-half rally Thursday at Chase to get to 6-6 — you just have to watch how hard they play. How much they’re lifted by their buoyant fans, who have sold out the arena in all six home games. How little they’re surprised by any of this.
And then listen to Kayla Thornton, the reigning league player of the week, who didn’t love a suggestion after the game that the Valkyries are pretty good for a team that doesn’t have any stars.
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