Overview

• Veronica Burton powered Golden State with 25 points, 13 assists and a career-high four blocks, halting a three-game slide.
• Paige Bueckers was held to nine points on 3-of-12 shooting, ending her 30-game streak of double-digit scoring.
• Kaila Charles, signed to a rest-of-season deal days earlier, tied her career high with 16 points while taking the primary defensive assignment on Bueckers.
• Short-handed to eight active players, the Valkyries hit a season-high 16 threes and went 18-for-18 at the line to move a game clear of the Sparks for the No. 8 seed.
• Dallas dropped to 9-29 with a fifth straight loss and 10 defeats in 11, hours after announcing rookie JJ Quinerly is out for the season with an ACL sprain.