{"id":575840,"date":"2026-04-10T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575840\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:57:07","slug":"nneka-ogwumike-announces-departure-from-seattle-storm-in-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575840\/","title":{"rendered":"Nneka Ogwumike announces departure from Seattle Storm in social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Nneka Ogwumike,35, announced she is departing from the Seattle Storm in a social media post on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On an Instagram story and X, Ogwumike thanked Seattle. <\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike was with the Storm for 2 seasons and is a former MVP and 10-time All-Star, according to ESPN. <\/p>\n<p>Before playing for Seattle, Ogwumike spent 12 seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as the negotiation period of free agency is underway, and players can sign contracts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/48413293\/wnba-free-agency-trade-tracker-2026-deals-news-transactions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">beginning Saturday, according to ESPN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALSO SEE | <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/sports\/storm\/seattle-storm-2026-theme-games-wnba-season-opening-night-aanhpi-heritage-night-toy-drive-90s-celebrate-sports-black-excellence-cancer-northern-lights-pride-rivalry-hello-kitty-kids-day-inclusion-equality-native-american-women-fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Storm unveil 2026 home schedule packed with theme nights and fun freebies <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike was not listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/storm.wnba.com\/roster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">team\u2019s roster on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Storm has not commented on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Nneka Ogwumike,35, announced she is departing from the Seattle Storm in a social media post on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-575840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}