{"id":593153,"date":"2026-04-19T06:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:22:17","slug":"golden-state-valkyries-sign-free-agent-tiffany-hayes-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593153\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State Valkyries sign free agent Tiffany Hayes to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Golden State Valkyries have re-signed free agent guard\u00a0Tiffany Hayes to a one-year deal, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hayes, 36, announced her retirement in 2023 but returned to the WNBA on a one-year contract with the Las Vegas Aces the following season, when she won Sixth Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She signed a one-year contract with the expansion Valkyries in February 2025 and averaged 11.7 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 26 games. She missed the team&#8217;s final eight regular-season games because of a knee injury that also kept her out of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;Tip helped lay the foundation on and off the court for this team, and that&#8217;s not something you take for granted,&#8221; Valkyries general manager Ohemaa Nyanin said in a statement. &#8220;She&#8217;s an experienced leader and veteran player who showed up for the Bay. Being able to welcome Tip back to her second home is truly special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 13-year veteran was an All-Star in 2017 and named to the All-WNBA and All-Defensive teams in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hayes won back-to-back national championships at UConn (2009-10) and was selected by the Atlanta Dream in the second round of the 2012 draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Valkyries tip off the regular season at the Seattle Storm on May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Valkyries have re-signed free agent guard\u00a0Tiffany Hayes to a one-year deal, the team announced Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[258703,99,434],"class_list":["post-593153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-golden-state-valkyries-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-44817","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}