2024 Seattle Storm season

2024 Seattle Storm season
CoachNoelle Quinn
ArenaClimate Pledge Arena
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Attendance11,184 per game
Results
Record25–15 (.625)
Place3rd (Western)
Playoff finish5th seed; Lost in First Round 0–2 to Las Vegas
Team Leaders
PointsJewell Loyd – 19.7 ppg
ReboundsEzi Magbegor – 8.0 rpg
AssistsSkylar Diggins-Smith – 6.4 apg

The 2024 season for the Seattle Storm, a professional American basketball team based in Seattle, Washington, was their 25th season in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). It was their third full season with Noelle Quinn as head coach.[1] The Storm play their home games at Climate Pledge Arena in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle; the 2024 season was their first at a new training facility, the Seattle Storm Center for Basketball Performance in Interbay.[2]

The team's regular season schedule began on May 14 and included 40 games against the other eleven teams in WNBA. Four games were played against five teams from the Western Conference and two teams from the Eastern Conference; the Storm played three games each against the remaining four teams from the Eastern Conference.[3] Five regular season games in early June were played against teams in the same conference to determine qualification for the WNBA Commissioner's Cup, an in-season tournament first played in 2021.[4]

The Storm played 10 road games out of their first 15 games and returned to Seattle for nine consecutive games at home from June 23 to July 14.[3] The 2024 WNBA season included a month-long break for the Summer Olympic Games that began after the WNBA All-Star Game on July 20 in Phoenix, Arizona.[5][6]

  1. ^ Allen, Percy (September 25, 2023). "Storm sign Noelle Quinn to multiyear contract extension". The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  2. ^ "Sellen tops out Storm training facility in Interbay". Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. September 26, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Allen, Percy (December 18, 2023). "Here's a look at the Storm's 2024 schedule". The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  4. ^ Voepel, M.A. (December 18, 2023). "WNBA goes to more compact format for Commissioner's Cup". ESPN. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  5. ^ Pickman, Ben; Merchant, Sabreena (December 18, 2023). "WNBA unveils 2024 schedule with 40 regular-season games, new Commissioner's Cup format". The Athletic. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  6. ^ Feinberg, Doug (December 18, 2023). "WNBA to take its usual month-long break for the Olympics". Associated Press. Retrieved January 30, 2024.