SAN FRANCISCO – Chase Middle featured, maybe, the longest first half in WNBA historical past on Sunday night time.
The primary half of the sport between the Valkyries and Fever at Chase Middle featured three stoppages, totaling round 32 minutes complete. The preliminary two quarters took an hour and 40 minutes to play.
The primary stoppage occurred two minutes into the sport, leading to a 25-minute stoppage as the sector crew wheeled out auxiliary clocks onto the baseline and turned off the principle clocks above the hampers.
A lot of the Fever gamers – together with the injured Caitlin Clark – went again to the locker room.
In the meantime the Valkyries went via a second shootaround to remain heat till the clock state of affairs was fastened.
Throughout the stoppage, 49ers gamers George Kittle, Ricky Pearsall and Kyle Juszczyk took their seats subsequent to Golden State proprietor Joe Lacob, and the in-game leisure had the 18,064 followers within the offered out area dancing and laughing for nearly half an hour.
A damaged shot clock above a basket in the course of the Golden State Valkyries recreation in opposition to the Indiana Fever within the second quarter on the Chase Middle in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Space Information Group)
The Valkyries put out the next assertion halfway via the primary quarter.
“Earlier today the Golden State Valkyries were delayed due to a technical issue with the shot clocks due to a power outage this morning,” the assertion learn. “Game play has resumed, and these issues will be addressed accordingly.”
That was not the top of the timekeeping-related issues, although.
All was nicely till the seven-minute mark of the second quarter, when, as soon as once more, officers halted play. However this time, the difficulty was resolved in solely 4 minutes.
With 3:44 left within the second quarter, the sport paused for one more two minutes because the groups skilled a 3rd clock-related subject.
And in case there weren’t sufficient pauses within the motion, officers stopped the sport a number of different occasions for prolonged opinions — some initiated by coaches — on foul calls.
In any case of that, the Valkyries went into the locker room main the Fever 44-32. When play resumed within the third quarter, the clocks on the high of the backboard had been again in working situation, and the reserve gear on the baselines had been taken again into storage.
Initially Revealed: August 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM PDT
