With a 79-64 win over the Connecticut Sun on Friday night, the Golden State Valkyries (17-7) hold the WNBA’s longest active win streak and have emerged alongside the Minnesota Lynx and Las Vegas Aces as one of the league’s top three teams.
The most impressive part of the Valkyries’ run is that coach Natalie Nakase’s team is now just six wins shy of matching last season’s win total — with 20 games left in the regular season.
What explains the seven-game win streak? Here are the three factors that have made the last three weeks the most dominant stretch in the franchise’s brief history.
