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Valkyries-Dream WNBA Finals Game 6 will be played at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time Thursday · Best of: Features

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  Valkyrie's Dream WNBA Finals, Game 6: will be played at 9:30 AM
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  Pacific time Thursday. This article is being read
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  by an automated voice generated by Everlet. On the day of Game
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  five of the Tide WNBA Finals, the Golden State Valkyries finally found
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  out when and where they'll play Game six in the middle of
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  a workday morning for San Francisco fans. The WNBA brought an end
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  to the chaotic few days of uncertainty by announcing Game six in
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  Atlanta will be played at twelve thirty p.m. Eastern nine, thirty AM
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  Pacific on Thursday, october twenty ninth in State Farm Arena. ESPN was
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  first to report the time was moved up from the previously scheduled
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  five p.m. Pacific time slot, with the WNBA making its official announcement
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  a few minutes later. The news comes two full days after the
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  Valkyries won Game four over the Dream, tying the best of seven
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  series at two games each, and guaranteeing Game six would happen. The
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  WNBA did not have an announcement set at the time, and, according
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  to multiple reports, had spent the better part of the past two
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  days trying to find a workable solution. In case you missed it,
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  for the past six seasons the Dream have called home the Gateway
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  Center Arena in College Park, which only has a capacity of around
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  three thousand five hundred, but the Dream have moved every playoff game
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  this year to the much larger State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta,
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  an arena operated by the NBA's Hawks that holds a little more
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  than seventeen thousand. Ever since them Dream clinched a spot in the
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  WNBA Finals on October ninth, it wasn't clear where the league was
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  going to hold the three games in Atlanta. The WNBA set the
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  final schedule months in advance with national television partners, and State Farm
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  Arena had conflicts for the dates of Games three, four and six.
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  But on october thirteenth, the WNBA announced that games three and four
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  would be moved in order to get them played in State Farm
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  Arena That announcement, though, didn't touch on Game Six, and the league
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  did not answer an SF Gate inquiry at the time about what
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  would happen for it. As of Friday, as in one day before
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  Game four, Hawke's Chief Operating Officer Steve Coonin was telling Atlanta Sports
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  Radio Station ninety two point nine, the game that people should write
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  your local congressman, if they were trying to help get the game
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  into State Farm Arena, and that playing in Gateway Center Arena might
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  be unavoidable. All of the negotiations sure give the impression that the
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  WNBA avoided coming to a solution because the series might have ended
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  prior to Game six. According to an ESPN story on Sunday, several
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  sources around the situation expressed frustration that these issues hadn't been resolved
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  before Saturday. But even with this feasible solution finalized, there's no underscoring
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  just how embarrassing it is for the WNBA to have the arena
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  issues in the middle of the finals. Game 5 of the WNBA
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  Finals is set to take place in San Francisco at 5 p.m.
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  On Monday, with the game televised on USA Network. This breaking news
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  story has been updated.