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Kate Martin waived by the Golden State Valkyries

I was really sad and upset to learn about this today. Great player who I personally believe deserves a roster spot in the WNBA. They used her for team promo and everything, just to waive her. I get that maybe her injury probably played a role, but I really hope this isn’t the end of professional basketball for her. I know Kate will make a great coach one day, but I really want to see her playing pro just a bit longer before she settles down into a coaching position.

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u/Sufficient_Berry8703 — 15 days ago

We currently have a training camp roster of 16. While I’ve loved the contributions of each player, we will need to waive four of them… or at least waive two and put the other two on development contracts.

Most of this team either consists of vets or has players that are guaranteed a spot on this team. Only players that aren’t guaranteed something are the following:

Jessica Timmons

• Kayana Traylor

• Justine Pissott

• Megan McConnell

• Makayla Timpson

Outside of these five, 11 players are pretty much guaranteed a spot on the main roster. I have a strong feeling KK is safest of these five players I listed here. Pissott is already on a development contract. I know we still have a couple games left this pre-season and we have yet to see more player action take place. But after seeing how pre-season game 1 went, I really think that second development contract goes to Timmons, and Traylor + McConnell very sadly get waived. Again, we still have two pre-season games left before the roster is finalized. But it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

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u/Sufficient_Berry8703 — 26 days ago