The Golden State Valkyries made their presence known this weekend during NBA All Star 2025!
Kate Martin and Tiffany Hayes in particular gave Golden State Valkyries fans something to look forward to over the weekend. The duo, who are also teammates on the Laces BC at Unrivaled in Miami, performed their "signature song" for the team's Instagram followers.
"What up Valks?" Hayes asked. "We're here in the locker room, we're excited to be here. I'm with Kate the Great!" Martin added, "Let's go!" before Hayes continued, "Me and Kate, Kate and me, we're as great as we can be." Martin wasn't the only teammate Hayes blessed the locker room with. In what is a true 2020s rite of passage, earlier in the weekend she and Kayla Thornton recorded the first-ever TikTok in the same space.
Thornton arrived in the Bay Area Thursday and promptly began sharing plenty of content online. In one video shared on Twitter she said, "What's up Valkyries fans? It's Kayla Thornton, number five, reporting live from our new locker room." "I'm excited to be here," she continued. "I can't wait to get on the floor to show y'all what we're going to do this year. Come out and support."
The team also shared video of Thornton getting shots up for the first time in the Valkyries' brand-new practice facility.
Tiffany Hayes and Kate Martin joined the "A Touch More" podcast in Oakland
The duo were also both participants in a live recording of Meg Rapinoe and Sue Bird's "A Touch More" podcast Friday night. WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson was also part of the recording, and she took the time to answer a few questions about her relationship with former teammate Kate Martin.
Wilson and Martin charmed the internet last season with their Finding Nemo-inspired pregame handshake, something that Wilson said they'll have to continue this season, even as they play on opposing teams. "That moment is very irreplacable," she said in footage shared by Aliyah Funschelle. "I can't even think of a better handshake that we could ever do."
When it was her turn to speak, Martin also had plenty to say about changes in the WNBA in the last year. "I haven't experienced too many terrible locker rooms or practicing in a D3 gym," Martin said. "I'm not going to say sorry .... with the landscape of how sports has changed and everything, we shouldn't feel sorry for being in this space, and we shouldn't feel sorry for getting things that we deserve."