2024 Seattle Storm season | |
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Coach | Noelle Quinn |
Arena | Climate Pledge Arena Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Attendance | 11,184 per game |
Results | |
Record | 25–15 (.625) |
Place | 3rd (Western) |
Playoff finish | 5th seed; Lost in First Round 0–2 to Las Vegas |
Team Leaders | |
Points | Jewell Loyd – 19.7 ppg |
Rebounds | Ezi Magbegor – 8.0 rpg |
Assists | Skylar 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]
The Storm finished 25–15 overall, which was fifth place during the regular season. Their 25 wins were the most since the 2018 season. As the fifth seed in the 2024 WNBA Playoffs, they faced off against the Las Vegas Aces in the First Round. The Storm were swept two games to zero, losing the first game 67–78 and the second 73–86 to end their season.