WNBA Finals Takeaways: Dream make franchise history to even series

Before you can take home your franchise’s first WNBA championship, you need to win your club’s first Finals game. For the Atlanta Dream, that has been the hurdle on three separate occasions (2010, 2011, 2013). It took the club 11 Finals games before it could finally put a tally in the win column. A 79-65 win over the Golden State Valkyries in Game 2 snapped a 10-game drought and secured what had so far been an elusive Finals victory for the Dream. Stealing one in front of a sold-out “Ballhalla” crowd already makes the feat impressive, but an unrelenting return…