SAN FRANCISCO– With the WNBA offseason in full swing, there hasn't been much Golden State Valkyries chatter since their historic inaugural season .

There's been the occasional Natalie Nakase sighting ; the Valkyries' head coach was at the Boston Celtics practice facility, chopping it up with her mentor Joe Mazzulla. Carla Leite and Tiffany Hayes recently went head-to-head in Europe for their respective offseason teams. Kaitlyn Chen went on UConn star Azzi Fudd's podcast. And while the uncertainty emanating from the WNBA's contentious CBA negotiations looms large over the entire league, for the most part, the team that became the first expansion franchise in history to make the playoffs is all off doing their own thing.

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