A regular season game between theSeattle Storm andAtlanta Dream atClimate Pledge Arena in 2022

A regular season game atKeyArena in 2007

TheSeattle Storm are a professional Americanwomen's basketball team based inSeattle, Washington, that competes in theWomen's National Basketball Association (WNBA). They are a member of theWestern Conference and joined the league in the2000 season as one of fourexpansion franchises that year.^[1][2] The Storm initially shared ownership with theSeattle SuperSonics of theNational Basketball Association (NBA) and played at the same home venue,KeyArena on theSeattle Center campus. During therelocation of the SuperSonics, the Storm were sold to a new ownership group and remained at KeyArena until it closed after the2018 season for major renovations.^[3] The team temporarily relocated to theHec Edmundson Pavilion on theUniversity of Washington campus during the2019 season andAngel of the Winds Arena inEverett during the 2019 and 2021 seasons;^[4][5] the shortened2020 season was played entirelybehind closed doors at anisolated site inBradenton, Florida, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[6] Since 2022, the Storm have played atClimate Pledge Arena, a new facility built on the site of KeyArena that has a capacity of 13,500 seats for most WNBA games.^[7]

In their 26seasons, the Storm have anall-time regular season record of 467 wins and 421 losses, the fourth-best among active WNBA teams.^[8][9] The team qualified for theWNBA Playoffs in 20 seasons and have an all-time record of 36 wins and 33 losses.^[8][10] During those playoff runs, the Storm appeared in fourWNBA Finals and won the league championship in all four finals.^[11] The team also won theinaugural edition of theWNBA Commissioner's Cup, an in-season tournament that debuted in 2021 after a one-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[12][13] The team's players include three-timeWNBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) winnerLauren Jackson, one-time MVP winnerBreanna Stewart, and three-timeSportsmanship Award winnerSue Bird.^[14][15] The trio were among eight Storm players named toThe W25, a selection of the 25 best players in WNBA history selected for the league's 25th anniversary in 2021.^[16]

The Storm made their debut on May 31, 2000,^[17] and finished their first season with a 6–26win–loss record, the worst in the league that year. The team selected Sue Bird with the first pick of the2002 WNBA draft and finished their third season with a 17–15 record and their first playoff berth, which ended in a loss in the Western Conference Semifinals.^[1] The Storm won their first WNBA championship in the2004 Finals, where they defeated theConnecticut Sun with two wins in three games; it was the first professional sports championship for Seattle since the SuperSonics won the1979 NBA Finals.^[18] The season also marked the start of a ten-year streak of playoff appearances—the longest in WNBA history at the time^[19]—but the team were eliminated in the Western Conference Semifinals for five consecutive years from 2005 to 2009.^[20] The Storm finished the2010 regular season as the top seed in the WNBA and tied the league record for most wins in the regular season with a 28–6 record; they won theirsecond championship that year and became the second WNBA team to win a title without a single loss in the playoffs, which culminated in a three-game sweep of theAtlanta Dream.^[1][21]

Despite limited appearances for injured star players Lauren Jackson and Sue Bird, the team qualified for the playoffs in the following three seasons but never advanced beyond the first round.^[22] The Storm failed to qualify for the playoffs in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, but earned the top pick in the subsequent WNBA draft for two consecutive years;^[1] Breanna Stewart andJewell Loyd were chosen in those drafts and both won theRookie of the Year Award in their debut seasons.^[23] The team returned to the playoffs in subsequent years but were again eliminated in the first round; under new head coachDan Hughes, the Storm won theirthird championship in 2018 with a three-game shutout of theWashington Mystics.^[22] After a second-round exit in the2019 playoffs—attributed to the absence of Bird and Stewart—the team won theirfourth championship against theLas Vegas Aces in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.^[1][6] The Storm were eliminated from the2021 playoffs after one game and the2022 playoffs in the second round;^[10] the team did not qualify for the playoffs in the2023 season but returned in the2024 season, where they lost to the Las Vegas Aces in the first round.^[24][25]

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