WNBA Star Breanna Stewart Calls Out Valkyries' Playoff Dilemma

Valkyries president Jess Smith informed season ticket holders that they will not be able to host their first-round playoff game at Chase Center due to scheduling conflicts. Instead, the Valkyries will be playing at SAP Center in San Jose, which is about an hour away from San Francisco.

This is a very unfortunate situation, but they have had these plans to host the Laver Cup, a big tennis tournament, at Chase Center before they even knew they were getting an expansion WNBA team.

Breanna Stewart tells it how it is

Of course, this is a poor situation for the Valkyries to be in, as there does not seem to be anything they can do about it, but New York Liberty star and WNBA legend Breanna Stewart thinks it is disrespectful. On Monday, Stewart got brutally honest about the situation.

“You want to think that you’re past it,” Stewart told SFGATE. “We want to think that we’re, like, better than this. Listen, sometimes it’s out of the control of everyone involved. But it’s just... You don’t see it happening with the NBA.”

The Valkyries' fans have done everything this season to earn a home playoff game, and now this monumental, first home playoff game in franchise history will not be in Chase Center.

“Especially for the fans, playoff games are, for them too, a sense of accomplishment a little bit,” Stewart said. “And just making sure that, while everything else is getting booked well in advance, so does the WNBA schedule and playoffs.”

The Valkyries will simply need to get out of the first round in order to give "BallHalla" a legitimate home playoff game, and picking up a win while in San Jose will be very important.

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