Valkyries may have struck gold with undrafted rookie signing
The Golden State Valkyries have been rightly criticized for being an expansion team with zero of their 2025 WNBA Draft picks on the roster. Justė Jocytė stayed in Europe, while Shyanne Sellers and Kaitlyn Chen were both cut before the season began.
But that doesn't mean the team hasn't found some rookie gems. They just came to the team differently. There's Carla Leite, who the team added from Dallas in the expansion draft, and then there's Janelle Salaün.
Salaün, a 23-year-old forward from France, signed a training camp deal with the Valkyries back in February. While she missed training camp to finish her international season, Golden State was high enough on Salaün to keep her on the final roster.
So far, the team hasn't been disappointed with that decision.
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