The Seattle Storm are a professional American women's basketball team based in Seattle, Washington, that competes in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). They are a member of the Western Conference and joined the league in the 2000 season as one of four expansion franchises that year. The Storm initially shared ownership with the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and played at the same home venue, KeyArena on the Seattle Center campus. During the relocation of the SuperSonics, the Storm were sold to a new ownership group and remained at KeyArena until it closed after the 2018 season for major renovations. The team temporarily relocated to the Hec Edmundson Pavilion on the University of Washington campus during the 2019 season and Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett during the 2019 and 2021 seasons; the shortened 2020 season was played entirely behind closed doors at an isolated site in Bradenton, Florida, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2022, the Storm have played at Climate Pledge Arena, a new facility built on the site of KeyArena that has a capacity of 13,500 seats for most WNBA games.

In their 27 seasons, the Storm have an all-time regular season record of 475 wins and 457 losses, the sixth-best among active WNBA teams. The team qualified for the WNBA Playoffs in 20 seasons and have an all-time record of 36 wins and 33 losses. During those playoff runs, the Storm appeared in four WNBA Finals and won the league championship in all four finals. The team also won the inaugural edition of the WNBA Commissioner's Cup, an in-season tournament that debuted in 2021 after a one-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team's players include three-time WNBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) winner Lauren Jackson, one-time MVP winner Breanna Stewart, and three-time Sportsmanship Award winner Sue Bird. The trio were among eight Storm players named to The W25, a selection of the 25 best players in WNBA history selected for the league's 25th anniversary in 2021.

The Storm made their debut on May 31, 2000, and finished their first season with a 6–26 win–loss record, the worst in the league that year. The team selected Sue Bird with the first pick of the 2002 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. The Storm won their first WNBA championship in the 2004 Finals, where they defeated the Connecticut Sun with two wins in three games; it was the first professional sports championship for Seattle since the SuperSonics won the 1979 NBA Finals. The season also marked the start of a ten-year streak of playoff appearances—the longest in WNBA history at the time—but the team were eliminated in the Western Conference Semifinals for five consecutive years from 2005 to 2009. The Storm finished the 2010 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 their second 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 the Atlanta Dream.

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. 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; Breanna Stewart and Jewell Loyd were chosen in those drafts and both won the Rookie of the Year Award in their debut seasons. The team returned to the playoffs in subsequent years but were again eliminated in the first round; under new head coach Dan Hughes, the Storm won their third championship in 2018 with a three-game shutout of the Washington Mystics. After a second-round exit in the 2019 playoffs—attributed to the absence of Bird and Stewart—the team won their fourth championship against the Las Vegas Aces in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. The Storm were eliminated from the 2021 playoffs after one game and the 2022 playoffs in the second round; the team did not qualify for the playoffs in the 2023 season but returned in the 2024 season, where they lost to the Las Vegas Aces in the first round.

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Key to colors WNBA championsConference champions(regular season)¤Playoff berth^WNBA Commissioner's Cup champions

Key to abbreviations DNQ – Did not qualify Conf. Semis – Conference Semifinals Conf. Finals – Conference Finals TBD – To be determined

Key to awards COY – Coach of the Year DPOY – Defensive Player of the Year FMVP – Finals Most Valuable Player MIP – Most Improved Player MVP – Most Valuable Player ROY – Rookie of the Year SIX – Sixth Player of the Year SPOR – Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award

Seasons + Seattle Storm record by seasonYearSeasonConferenceRegular seasonPlayoff resultsCommissioner'sCup resultsAwardsHead coach20002000Western 6 26 8thDNQEstablished in 2020—20012001Western 10 22 8thDNQ—20022002Western 17 15 4th ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Los Angeles, 0–2—20032003Western 18 16 4thDNQ 2004  †2004 Western 20 14 2nd ¤ Won Conf. Semis vs. Minnesota, 2–0Won Conf. Finals vs. Sacramento, 2–1Won WNBA Finals vs. Connecticut, 2–1 20052005Western 20 14 2nd ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Houston, 1–2—20062006Western 18 16 3rd ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Los Angeles, 1–2—20072007Western 17 17 4th ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Phoenix, 0–2 20082008Western 22 12 2nd ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Los Angeles, 1–2—20092009Western 20 14 2nd ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Los Angeles, 1–2—2010  †2010  †Western 28 6 1st Won Conf. Semis vs. Los Angeles, 2–0Won Conf. Finals vs. Phoenix, 2–0Won WNBA Finals vs. Atlanta, 3–0 20112011Western 21 13 2nd ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Phoenix, 1–2 20122012Western 16 18 4th ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Minnesota, 1–2—20132013Western 17 17 4th ¤Lost Conf. Semis vs. Minnesota, 0–2—20142014Western 12 22 5thDNQ—20152015Western 10 24 5thDNQ 20162016Western 16 18 3rd ¤Lost First round vs. Atlanta, 0–1 20172017Western 15 19 5th ¤Lost First round vs. Phoenix, 0–1 () ()2018  †2018  †Western 26 8 1st Won Semifinals vs. Phoenix, 3–2Won WNBA Finals vs. Washington, 3–0 20192019Western 18 16 3rd ¤Won First round vs. Minnesota, 1–0Lost Second round vs. Los Angeles, 0–1 2020  †2020 Western 18 4 2nd ¤ Won Semifinals vs. Minnesota, 3–0Won WNBA Finals vs. Las Vegas, 3–0 Not held 2021  †2021 ^Western 21 11 3rd ¤Lost Second round vs. Phoenix, 0–1Won Commissioner's Cup vs. Connecticut ^— () ()20222022Western 22 14 2nd ¤Won First round vs. Washington, 2–0Lost Second round vs. Las Vegas, 1–3DNQ—20232023Western 11 29 5thDNQDNQ—20242024Western 25 15 3rd ¤Lost First round vs. Las Vegas, 0–2DNQ—20252025Western 23 21 4th ¤Lost First round vs. Las Vegas, 1–2Eliminated in first round (4–2)—20262026Western 8 36 8thDNQEliminated in first round (0–7)—Totals (27 seasons)475457All-time regular season record (2000–2026)3633All-time playoffs record (2000–2026)All-time overall record (2000–2026)

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