2002 Seattle Storm season

July 2025 March 2026 August 2023 Seattle Storm 2002 17 15 Western 4th Lin Dunn KeyArena Lost Western Conference Semifinals (0-2) to Los Angeles Sparks The 2002 WNBA season was the third season for the Seattle Storm basketball team. They made to the playoffs for the first time, but losing to the Los Angeles Sparks in a sweep, who went on to win the WNBA Finals for the second year in a row. The Storm beat the Portland Fire by 1 game for the final spot, which the Fire would later cease operations. Offseason WNBA draft Sue Bird was among four of the top six draft picks, (along with Swin Cash (#2), Asjha Jones (#4) and Tamika (Williams) Raymond (#6) ) that were from the same team, the 2002 NCAA Champion University of Connecticut. Pick Player Nationality School/Club team 1 Sue Bird University of Connecticut 19 Lucienne Berthieu 28 Felicia Ragland 35 Takeisha Lewis http://www.wnba.com/history/storm_draft_history.html Seattle Storm Draft History WNBA.com 2022-09-04 Regular season Season standings SEA Season schedule Game Date Opponent Result Record 1 May 30 New York L 61–78 0–1 2 June 2 at Portland W 57–47 1–1 3 June 4 Minnesota W 78–68 (OT) 2–1 4 June 6 Charlotte W 65–59 3–1 5 June 9 Utah L 68–71 3–2 6 June 11 Portland L 63–70 3–3 7 June 14 at Phoenix W 90–82 4–3 8 June 15 at Utah L 54–61 4–4 9 June 18 Los Angeles L 68–80 4–5 10 June 20 at Sacramento L 64–72 4–6 11 June 21 Indiana W 63–51 5–6 12 June 23 Sacramento W 86–60 6–6 13 June 26 at Phoenix L 53–62 6–7 14 June 27 Orlando W 73–71 7–7 15 July 2 at New York L 63–74 7–8 16 July 5 at Cleveland W 73–65 8–8 17 July 7 at Miami L 61–65 (OT) 8–9 18 July 9 at Houston L 59–67 8–10 19 July 11 Los Angeles W 79–60 9–10 20 July 12 Cleveland L 58–62 9–11 21 July 19 Phoenix W 89–48 10–11 22 July 20 Houston L 54–56 10–12 23 July 23 at Houston L 54–66 10–13 24 July 25 at Orlando W 79–76 11–13 25 July 27 at Washington W 80–71 12–13 26 July 28 at Detroit W 72–59 13–13 27 July 31 Minnesota W 75–63 14–13 28 August 1 at Los Angeles W 81–76 15–13 29 August 4 at Minnesota L 60–73 15–14 30 August 9 Portland W 83–74 16–14 31 August 11 Utah W 74–57 17–14 32 August 13 at Sacramento L 51–59 17–15 Game Date Opponent Result Record 1 August 15 Los Angeles L 61–78 0–1 2 August 17 at Los Angeles L 59–69 0–2 Player stats Player GP REB AST STL BLK PTS Lauren Jackson 28 190 41 30 81 482 Sue Bird 32 83 191 55 3 461 Kamila Vodičková 32 176 47 36 18 295 Simone Edwards 32 141 19 21 12 223 Felicia Ragland 31 48 23 27 1 141 Semeka Randall 21 68 29 20 1 134 Amanda Lassiter 24 63 55 27 19 126 Adia Barnes 26 102 28 32 9 90 Michelle Marciniak 23 28 38 11 2 72 Kate Starbird 9 19 12 6 4 53 Jamie Redd 10 13 7 2 0 52 Kate Paye 19 7 5 3 0 21 Takeisha Lewis 14 24 3 2 0 18 Sonja Henning 8 26 15 9 1 18 Danielle McCulley 4 7 1 1 0 2https://www.basketball-reference.com/wnba/teams/SEA/2002.html 2002 Seattle Storm Stats References External links Storm on Basketball Reference Category:Seattle Storm seasons Seattle Category:2002 in sports in Washington (state) Category:2002 in Seattle