Valkyries' First Home Game

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Golden State Valkyries open season with enthusiastic fans, low expectations

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The Golden State Valkyries are the first expansion team in 17 years to play in the WNBA.

The team is the first in WNBA history to sell 10,000 season tickets in San Francisco .

The roster construction, through both the expansion and college drafts, has traveled the spectrum from unusual to mystifying.

But, alas, a team cannot live on vibes alone.

Then the fans seemed to take a collective breath before more cheering broke out: slowly at first , then faster and then almost urgently. "I know we lost," Nakase said, "but it almost felt for a second like we won." The confusion is understandable. As the fans cheered, they began to stand, a few at first and then nearly everyone. The fans cheered down as the players looked up and cheered back, a moment that suggested this might be the rare place where -- for now at least -- the game itself is enough, and the scoreboard is nobody's god..

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