Ohemaa Nyanin hasn’t slept long, but she slept well.
It’s 9:50 a.m. PT on Saturday, but when taking the video call, the general manager of the Golden State Valkyries is bright-eyed, smiling and excited. It’s been a hectic couple of days. The expansion draft concluded Friday, but the real work has only just began. She’s dressed in team colors, as just a couple of days ago, the Valkyries unveiled their jerseys, which “are a visual interpretation of who Valkyries are: fierce, bold and strong,” as described by the organization’s senior vice president of marketing and communications, Kimberly Veale.
Will the players selected by Nyanin and her team match those qualities? Time will tell. At the moment she’s “cautiously optimistic” about what people think about the team.
In speaking with Swish Appeal, Nyanin shared her thoughts on the international players the team selected, as well as one player who’s currently turning heads in Australia in the WNBL, Veronica Burton. Burton, who spent last season with the Connecticut Sun, is playing twice as many minutes as she was getting in…
