The Seattle Storm will seek a measure of revenge against the only team that has beaten them twice this season when the Golden State Valkyries visit on Wednesday afternoon to close out the WNBA's first half.

No WNBA expansion team has ever made the playoffs. Only one has had a winning season. The Valkyries could do both.

Down four with 15 seconds left, the Valkyries miraculously tied the game on two fadeaway baskets by French rookie Janelle Salaün. Needing just one more stop, the Valkyries were heading toward an extra period of basketball to decide, what was up to that point, one of the best games of the WNBA season.

WNBA expansion teams usually don't get off to good starts, but the Golden State Valkyries are rewriting that narrative.

DeWanna Bonner officially landed with the Phoenix Mercury on July 3, returning to the place she spent the first nine years of her WNBA career and putting to res