WNBA moves Finals Games 3 and 4 to State Farm Arena, giving Atlanta Dream thousands more seats

The WNBA is moving Games 3 and 4 of the Finals to State Farm Arena in Atlanta, giving the Dream thousands of additional seats to sell .

To make that happen, the league is moving one game to a different day and changing the start time of the other.

The league announced Tuesday that Game 3 against the Golden State Valkyries will be played Wednesday, Oct.

21, at 8 p.m.

ET, a day earlier than originally scheduled.

ANGEL REESE’S LATEST WNBA CONTROVERSY SHOWS HOW VICTIMHOOD BECAME CENTRAL TO HER BRAND Game 4 will stay on Saturday, Oct.

24, but tipoff moves from 3:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.

ET.

The NBA's Atlanta Hawks also agreed to push their home opener against the Houston Rockets back 30 minutes, from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., to accommodate the Dream.

State Farm Arena already has a Sombr concert scheduled for Oct.

22, which created the conflict with Game 3.

The new arrangement allows Atlanta to use a building that seats roughly 17,000 instead of its usual home, the approximately 3,500-seat Gateway Center Arena.

Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the move "dramatically expands the seating capacity" and gives thousands more fans across the Southeast a chance to attend.

It'll be the first Finals game played in the Atlanta market since 2013.