2025 Seattle Storm season

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2025 Seattle Storm season
Coach Noelle Quinn
Arena Climate Pledge Arena
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Attendanceper game
Results
Record00
Place0th (Western)

The 2025 season for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) will be their 26th season as a franchise. This is the fourth full season under head coach Noelle Quinn. [1]

Contents

The 2025 season will consist of 44 regular season games. The WNBA announced prior to the end of the 2024 season that the Finals in 2025 would be a best of seven series. [2] The WNBA players' union announced on October 21, 2024 that they had opted out of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in place with the league. This is set to not affect the 2025 season as the current deal runs through the entire season. [3]

It was announced ahead of the 2025 season in November of 2024, that the Storm coaching staff was under investigation for allegations of player mistreatment. The Storm ownership hired a law firm to investigate any player allegations. [4] [5] [6]

Transactions

WNBA draft

RoundPickPlayerNationalitySchool/Team/Country
19TBDTBDTBD
221TBDTBDTBD
329TBDTBDTBD
334TBDTBDTBD

Transactions

DateTransaction
June 6, 2024 Ezi Magbegor signed a 1-year contract extension

Roster changes

Roster

2025 Seattle Storm roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.#Nat.NameHeightWeightDOBFromYrs
G 1 Flag of Croatia.svg Mühl, Nika   Cruz Roja.svg 6' 0" (1.83m)156 lb (71kg)2001-4-9 Connecticut R
G 4 Flag of the United States.svg Diggins-Smith, Skylar 5' 9" (1.75m)145 lb (66kg)1990-8-2 Notre Dame 9
C 13 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Magbegor, Ezi 6' 4" (1.93m)181 lb (82kg)1999-6-13 Australia 4
G/F 23 Flag of the United States.svg Horston, Jordan 6' 2" (1.88m)165 lb (75kg)2001-5-21 Tennessee 1
G 24 Flag of the United States.svg Loyd, Jewell 5' 11" (1.8m)165 lb (75kg)1993-10-5 Notre Dame 9
Head coach
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Flag of the United States.svg Noelle Quinn (UCLA)
Assistant coaches
Flag of the United States.svg Pokey Chatman (LSU)
Flag of the United States.svg Ebony Hoffman (Fresno Pacific)
Athletic trainer

Brittanie Vaughn



Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (FA) Free agent
  • (IN) Inactive
  • (S) Suspended
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured

Depth

Pos.StarterBench
PG Skylar Diggins-Smith Nika Mühl
SG Jewell Loyd
SF Jordan Horston
PF
C Ezi Magbegor

Schedule

Preseason

2025 pre-season game log
Total: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
May: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation
Attendance
Record
1TBA0-00–0
2TBA0-00-0
2025 pre-season schedule

Regular season

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