{"id":580621,"date":"2026-04-12T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580621\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:48:08","slug":"report-melbourne-leaves-mystics-for-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580621\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Melbourne leaves Mystics for the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Washington Mystics guard Jade Melbourne has signed a one year deal worth $500,000 with the Seattle Storm, according to Alexa Philippou of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The move is notable because Melbourne previously played for the Storm in the 2023 season. But also, Melbourne is following Stefanie Dolson who is moving from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/mystics\/69412\/wnba-free-agency-2026-stefanie-dolson-seattle-storm-washington-mystics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, DC to Washington State.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Melbourne averaged 5.9 points for the Mystics last season in 43 appearances including 12 starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Mystics guard Jade Melbourne has signed a one year deal worth $500,000 with the Seattle Storm, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,8253,434,23316],"class_list":{"0":"post-580621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-washington-mystics","10":"tag-wnba","11":"tag-wnba-free-agency"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580621","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=580621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}