All-Star ahead Gabby Williams has signed a multiyear deal with the Golden State Valkyries, the staff introduced Sunday.
Williams performed a key function in serving to the Seattle Storm clinch a playoff spot in 2025. Nicknamed the “French Army Knife” for her versatility and talent to impression the sport in a number of methods, the seventh-year ahead made her first All-Star look and was named to the All-Defensive First Team.
“For a player of Gabby’s caliber to choose us in just our second year … means everything,” Valkyries common supervisor Ohemaa Nyanin stated in an announcement. “She is world-class. One of the best defenders in the world, an WNBA All-Star, and someone who makes everyone around her better.”
She posted profession highs in a number of classes in 2025, together with factors (11.6) and assists (4.2). She led the WNBA in steals per sport (2.3) and completed with 99 for the season — one shy of tying Teresa Weatherspoon’s longstanding 100-steal document set in 1998.
Drafted fourth general by the Sky in 2018, the 5-foot-11 Williams spent three seasons with Chicago earlier than being traded to the Los Angeles Sparks in 2021. She didn’t seem in any video games for the Sparks and was traded to the Storm in 2022. Williams signed a one-year deal with Seattle in February 2025.
Wiliams, 29, received a silver medal with France on the 2024 Paris Olympics and was named to the All-Star Five. She additionally received bronze with France in 2020 and was a part of UConn‘s championship groups in 2015 and 2016.
