How did we get here so quickly with the Valkyries?

Yeah, it's an incredible story and it's kind of the perfect storm in a good way of what happened here.

Valkyries were the WNBA's first expansion team in 16 years and When they started play last year in 2025, Joe Lacob's group paid a $50 million expansion fee, and the W had wanted to get a team in the Bay Area for a long time, and had been talking to the Warriors ownership group, but it just...

The Warriors were focused when they first bought the team in 2010 on getting things right on the court, and then it was opening up the Chase Center.

And then finally, the time was right to bring a women's team to the Bay Area.

And it launched, of course, right after the Caitlin Clark phenomenon hit the league.

You had this building an area that was just ready to explode over women's basketball.

It's all struck at once.