After being renounced by Golden State Valkyries on Saturday, Shyanne Sellers has been collected by Atlanta’s dream, according to the WNBA transactions page. The dream was awarded the sellers outside the WAAIVERS two days after it was announced that the Valkyries had been cut a few days in the training camp, before their first preseason game. Sellers was recruited No. 17 in general by the Valkyries this year after being projected as a first round selection, then falling into the second round.
The Valkyries decision to reduce sellers was in line with a lot of criticism. Sellers was one of the best prospects that were written in the 2025 draft, despite falling into the second round. Speculation about their health was that all fans could be aware when trying to assemble why it was cut. The sellers fought with a knee injury while playing in Maryland, but were authorized to play before being recruited.
Around the weekend, the chief coach of Golden State, Natalie Nakase, told the media that her decisions are taken according to the adjustment, not in the talent.
Natalie Nakase in this movement: “She picked up everything we asked, Didything that we ask.
– Kendra Andrews (@endra__andrews) May 3, 2025
Now, sellers will go to Atlanta to try to make their list. Since the dream picked up the vendors within 48 hours after the Valkyries resigned, they assumed their entire rookie contract instead of signing it as a free agent. It is (contractual) as if selected themselves. That is why the terminology “grants exemptions” instead of “signed as a free agent.”
The possibilities that sellers who make the Atlanta list are not 100%, he thought. Atlanta has six protected veterans and two protected rookie contracts at its salary limit this season. That means that Brittney Griner, Brionna Jones, Jordin Canada, Allisha Gray, Nia Coffey, Shauri Walkimbrough, Rhyne Howard and Naz Hillmon. The dream has three or four places to fill, with eight players in the mixture for those points. Of those players, three (including sellers) are the rookie draft selections, one is a player returning (Haley Jones), and the rest are signing the camp contract. But as the highest draft selection of this year, Sellers has a chance.
Atlanta was close to being drafted the initial vendors on the night of the Draft: they had the Selection 18 and the sellers were recruited 17. They collected Te-Hina Paopao in the No. 18, and now they have vendors at number 17, essentially obtaining consecutive second round selections without having to make an exchange.
The Atlanta Dream plays his first preseason game on Wednesday, May 7, against the Mysics of Washington.
