Kate Martin Agrees With Caitlin Clark's Nail Critique
If you're in tune with the women's basketball world, you're probably aware by now that former Iowa Hawkeyes and Las Vegas Aces standout Kate Martin was selected by the Golden State Valkyries in the WNBA Expansion Draft last week.
The move makes a ton of sense for the Valkyries, who were able to acquire one of the WNBA's biggest draws to be the face of their franchise (at least in 2025) and who is still on her rookie contract.
Many of Martin's former teammates made their opinions about her leaving the Aces for Golden State apparent. One of these was Caitlin Clark (who Martin rose to superstardom with while the two were at Iowa), who reposted the Valkyries' Instagram post about selecting Martin on her Instagram story and added the caption, "let's go Kater!!!!! @katemartin" on her story last Friday.
Caitlin approves🤝🏾 pic.twitter.com/vVMfq4bN7I
— Vanshay Murdock 🎥🎥 (@VanshayM) December 7, 2024
On Sunday, Martin posted a TikTok that showed her packing up from her apartment in Las Vegas along with girlfriend Claire Gransee, storing everything in a U-Haul truck, and spending one last night in Vegas with a couple (former) Aces teammates before heading to the San Francisco Bay Area.
The general sentiment was that fans loved Martin taking them behind the scenes in this massive moment in her life.
However, that wasn't Clark's initial reaction.
"Bro fix ur nail polish," Clark wrote in a comment on the post.
Martin concurred with this sentiment by responding, "Haters gonna hate (they're so bad)".
Kate calling Caitlin a hater for her comment about her nails, but then agreeing they do look bad 😆😆 pic.twitter.com/tW9EJQWjmE
— ericaf455 (@ericaf455) December 10, 2024
Maybe Martin will take Clark's "hate" to heart and get her nails done once she arrives in San Francisco. Perhaps she'll even get them done in Valkyries violet.
Grant Young covers Women’s Basketball, the New York Yankees, and the New York Mets for Sports Illustrated’s ‘On SI’ sites. He holds an MFA degree in creative writing from the University of San Francisco (USF), where he also graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and played on USF’s Division I baseball team for five years. However, he now prefers Angel Reese to Angels in the Outfield.