{"id":580564,"date":"2026-04-12T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:00:07","slug":"seattle-storm-head-into-2026-with-big-shoes-to-fill-but-plenty-of-flexibility-emerald-city-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580564\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Storm Head Into 2026 With Big Shoes to Fill, But Plenty of Flexibility \u2014 Emerald City Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">If you found yourself in the recesses of Climate Pledge Arena for some Seattle Storm basketball last summer, chances are you saw one of the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">A passionate Skylar Diggins hyping up her bench after a 3-pointer or a timely assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">WNBA president Nneka Ogwumike settling into the post to hit a turnaround jumper to get Seattle rolling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">First-time All-Star Gabby Williams notching one of her three steals per game to flip the momentum to the home team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The chances of one of those three things happening were practically 100% every night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Those odds stand at 0% after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldcityspectrum.com\/home\/seattle-storm-free-agency-tracker-signings-departures-and-rumors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a wild start to free agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you found yourself in the recesses of Climate Pledge Arena for some Seattle Storm basketball last summer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-580564","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\/580564","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=580564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}