Meeting the Seattle media for the first time on Monday after signing with the Seattle Storm earlier this month, All-Stars Skylar Diggins-Smith and Nneka Ogwumike made it clear they expect the Storm to compete for a championship with their arrival after the team finished 11-29 during a rebuilding 2023 season.
“Hopefully just continuing that legacy of bringing a great product on the floor to compete for the championship,” said Diggins-Smith. “I’ll put that out there since we didn’t say that word. That’s everybody’s goal, and I think it’s how we go about things and habits that we create that will help us get closer to that.”
Seattle’s 2023 lottery campaign was the first for the team since 2015, which resulted in the No. 1 pick the Storm used on Breanna Stewart. Seattle made the playoffs seven consecutive seasons, winning WNBA championships in 2018 and 2020 as well as the 2021 Commissioner’s Cup, before the retirement of Sue Bird and Stewart’s departure for the New York Liberty sent the team into a one-year rebuild.
Taking advantage of free agency this time around, the Storm filled the holes…
