It’s a long way from Oakland to a Golden State Valkyries game. The WNBA’s newest expansion franchise is owned by Joe Lacob’s Golden State Group, and the Valkyries share a home with the Warriors at Chase Center, an arena notoriously not located in the East Bay. Chase is in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood, an ever-evolving waterfront development that curls around the shoreline south of the Bay Bridge like a crook.

To get there, Oaklanders have a few options, none terribly convenient. They can take a bus to BART to Muni. They can coordinate a massive carpool, paying $85 for on-site parking. They can remember to buy ferry tickets weeks in advance. They can try to mix in a bike ride on either end of a bus or BART trip across the bay. Or they can say to hell with it and call a Lyft.

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