{"id":576096,"date":"2026-04-10T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576096\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:05:12","slug":"nneka-ogwumike-announces-return-to-sparks-in-video-after-leaving-storm-in-wnba-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576096\/","title":{"rendered":"Nneka Ogwumike Announces Return to Sparks in Video After Leaving Storm in WNBA Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ten-time WNBA All-Star Nneka Ogwumike announced her departure from the Seattle Storm in free agency Thursday, and on Friday she revealed she&#8217;s headed back to the Los Angeles Sparks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ogwumike spent the past two seasons with the Storm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">She had received interest from the Minnesota Lynx as well as the Sparks ahead of free agency, according to <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexaphilippou\/status\/2042417553369149630?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Alexa Philippou and Ramona Shelburne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">While the star forward will be turning 36 years old during the upcoming 2026 season, she showed that she still has plenty left in the tank during her 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ogwumike averaged 18.3 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game while shooting 51.9 percent from the field and 36.7 percent from three-point territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Sparks will now add a key veteran presence as they attempt to end a five-year playoff drought this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten-time WNBA All-Star Nneka Ogwumike announced her departure from the Seattle Storm in free agency Thursday, and on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-576096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576096","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=576096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}