Stokes' 14 blocks set a Finals record as Valkyries go up 3-2

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe Valkyries beat the Dream sixty-four to fifty-five in Game Five and lead the WNBA Finals three games to two.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAnd the star wasn't the one the cameras chased. It's Kiah Stokes, six-foot-three, who has blocked fourteen shots through four games, a Finals record.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorI'm telling you, that's a defense.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo she's the only person in San Francisco that day who declined a photo op. Permanently.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLook, Atlanta had eighteen turnovers, NBC Sports says, and that got in the way of a comeback. Stokes was in every lane.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI assume her statement reads, thank you for your shot, we've gone another direction. Fourteen times.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorA first-year expansion team, in its first Finals. That's a dynasty in diapers.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentGame Six is in Atlanta, and Dream fans get one last chance to be blocked live.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorYes, and the league has it tipping at twelve-thirty Eastern. Lunch. They had the dates since December.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFourteen blocks, and the lunch tip is the one thing nobody could swat.