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Seattle lost a superstar, New York gained a super team
After leaving followers attempting to decipher her cryptic tweets in Taylor Swift type about the place she would find yourself subsequent season, Breanna Stewart has gone again to her residence state of New York.
Stewart signed with the Liberty on Feb. 1, after spending the final six seasons with the Seattle Storm. Stewie brings an intensive resume to New York, together with two WNBA championships, two championship MVP awards, and the 2022 scoring title. She is among the best athletes the WNBA has ever seen, and she or he’s solely 28, and simply arguably made the most important free company transfer in WNBA historical past.
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Main as much as the beginning of free company, the Liberty traded for ahead Jonquel Jones from the Connecticut Solar. Jones, who’s a celebrity in her personal proper, was a transfer nobody noticed coming, and bolstered a roster that’s anchored by Sabrina Ionescu’s IQ and ability. They then added Stewart, and signed guard Courtney Vandersloot from the Chicago Sky, who is among the finest passers within the league.
New York gained items to make a deep playoff push, one thing they haven’t completed since 2002, and have subsequently created an excellent workforce that persons are desirous to see take the courtroom with the most effective beginning fives in latest historical past.
“I feel this group has a ton of potential,” mentioned Stewart to ESPN after her signing. “I feel there may be loads of wonderful gamers. The selflessness is what’s going to assist us set ourselves aside from everybody else.”
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What’s subsequent for the Storm?
The Storm, nonetheless, misplaced the most effective gamers to ever play for his or her franchise.
There’s a lot that goes into getting gamers to signal and re-sign, and it isn’t just like the Storm didn’t have the cash to maintain her. Exterior elements performed into Stewie’s resolution. Stewart’s lately retired teammate Sue Hen speculated that Stewie would signal with New York on The Ringer’s NBA Present. Hen mentioned, “She’s from Syracuse, which clearly shouldn’t be New York Metropolis, however it makes a distinction. It’s nearer. Her spouse is from Spain. It’s nearer. She has a household now. Your priorities and what you want from a workforce begin to shift and alter as a result of cash shouldn’t be the one factor at play.”
On the finish of the day, generally it simply doesn’t work out. That’s what occurred to Seattle within the Stewie sweepstakes. It simply didn’t work out.
The most effective issues about Stewart and her play type is that she will be able to play wherever she is required. Her versatility is an asset that New York will capitalize on. She will shoot, she will be able to make game-changing performs and she will be able to play unimaginable protection.
That is the primary time in six years that Seattle is not going to have Hen or Stewie. It’s not one thing they haven’t seen, as each gamers missed the 2019 season attributable to damage. The saving grace for Seattle is that they nonetheless have All-Star Jewell Loyd. Due to that, the Storm aren’t in rebuild standing perse, however in an period of loads of uncertainty. They’ve gaps of their beginning 5 that may by no means be crammed by an offseason signing. Loyd will likely be referred to as on to anchor this workforce and step up into a bigger function, one thing she has by no means needed to do taking part in with each Stewie and Hen.
Moreover, if Mercedes Russell is wholesome, she will likely be referred to as on to play a bigger function attributable to her expertise. She hasn’t seen loads of time in Seattle, however with nobody to overshadow her, she may doubtlessly put up numbers like she did at Tennessee.
It’s evident that the Storm received’t be the identical workforce they’ve been for over half a decade, which is loopy to consider as they’ve been a juggernaut for thus lengthy. They received’t end on the prime of the league like they normally do, however they received’t end on the backside of the league both. They’re in basketball limbo, and so they most likely received’t depart it till individuals see them play. A playoff push shouldn’t be out of the query, but when they don’t signal somebody quickly, the chances are slipping.
For New York although, their breakout season has been lengthy anticipated. Individuals thought Ionescu can be that deciding issue, however she couldn’t do it alone. The entrance workplace has constructed a workforce round their franchise participant who is not going to solely help her, however deliver the extent of play and poise to the next normal. For the Liberty, something in need of a visit to the finals will likely be a disappointment.
Seattle police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are searching for a woman believed to have robbed at least seven banks since June 2024.
On Monday, detectives say she targeted the U.S. Bank on McGraw Street in Magnolia just before noon. They say she gave the teller a note, flashed a gun from her purse, and ran away with the money.
“This is so quiet and you don’t expect to do it here, like that, at day time,” said Maggie Irizarry, a Magnolia resident.
Police describe her as an Asian woman, about 5’3, in her early 20s and usually wearing a face mask and hat.
KIRO 7 obtained video from a robbery at a Homestreet Bank in Madison Park on March 18 which shows the suspect wearing sunglasses and a beanie.
Before that, police say she robbed banks in January 2025, November 2024, October 2024, September 2024, and June 2024 throughout the city.
“She keeps changing things. Yeah, maybe they’ll catch her. They need to set up some sort of sting operation at banks or something though,” said Renee Knopp, a Magnolia resident.
Each time she’s got a different look, but people we spoke with think those disguises won’t last long.
“She will get caught, sooner or later she will get caught, it’s just a matter of time,” said Maggie Irizarry.
The FBI says the suspect has stolen about $7,500 so far.
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The Seattle Seahawks have been among the most active teams throughout the 2025 NFL offseason, but there’s no guarantee that any of their moves will pan out. If anything, those around the league aren’t sure what to make of the new-look Seahawks.
While the defense should be better this season, their offense is a total mystery due to the many new faces. The team added three new quarterbacks, totally revamped its wide receiver room and selected an offensive lineman in the first round of the draft.
Is quarterback Sam Darnold an upgrade over Geno Smith? Will Cooper Kupp make up for the loss of DK Metcalf at wide receiver? Did Seattle do enough to fix its offensive line?
Obviously, no one can answer these questions until the season kicks off, but Pro Football Focus handed out offseason grades to all 32 teams. The Seahawks earned a “B” grade for their 2025 offseason haul.
“Hiring Klint Kubiak as offensive coordinator was a good move, as his work in New Orleans under unideal circumstances was encouraging,” wrote PFF’s Trevor Sikkema. “He fits right into a lot of the strengths of Seattle’s roster, especially with deploying a zone rushing attack.
PFF considered the switch from Smith to Darnold, another former NFL journeyman, to be a “net negative,” but praised the team’s changes at wide receiver.
“The Seahawks subbed in Sam Darnold for Geno Smith, which appears to be a net negative,” Sikkema continued. “They did well to swap their offensive weapons, switching D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett for Cooper Kupp and Marquez Valdes-Scantling. I also like their defensive additions of DeMarcus Lawrence and Nick Emmanwori.”
The quarterback decision will ultimately determine whether the offseason was a success for Seattle. The Seahawks will have to prove that giving up Smith for a late-Day 2 pick and replacing him with Darnold following one productive season in Minnesota was the right move.
In a way, the team hedged its bet on Darnold by drafting Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe in the third round. If Darnold starts seeing ghosts in the pocket, Milroe gives Seattle a more mobile option for this season and beyond.
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With their first-round pick, they addressed their most glaring need by drafting offensive lineman Grey Zabel. Over the next two rounds, they added a trio of intriguing players with rare athletic traits: versatile safety Nick Emmanwori, field-stretching tight end Elijah Arroyo and dual-threat quarterback Jalen Milroe.
And in the later rounds, they grabbed several potential value picks in defensive lineman Rylie Mills, wide receiver Tory Horton, running back Damien Martinez and wideout Ricky White III.
The high marks for Seattle’s draft class were further reflected in a recent article by The Athletic’s Mike Sando, who spoke to NFL team executives to gain their perspectives on opposing teams’ drafts.
“The top of the draft was really good for them,” one executive said, according to Sando. “They got three of the better players in the whole draft.”
But despite that, there was one criticism.
“The catch: Seattle targeted non-premium positions with its first three picks,” Sando wrote.
As Sando mentioned, the Seahawks’ first three picks were a guard, a safety and a tight end. And in terms of salaries, those three positions are typically on the lower half of the spectrum in terms of salaries.
That prompted Seattle Sports’ Mike Salk to ask NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah whether he thinks it’s an issue that the Seahawks spent their first three picks on non-premium positions.
“I don’t think so, because I don’t think they forced it,” said Jeremiah, a former NFL scout, to Brock and Salk. “… You can go in there with a plan in place (to) address the premium positions. But if it falls a certain way, you get in trouble when you’re trying to just force it and jam it in there.
“At the end of the day, the goal is to have blue (chip) players. You want to have elite players scattered across your roster. And depending on who you talk to, they’ll tell you, we need to have eight to 12 blue-caliber players – guys that could be considered in the top 10 of their position in the NFL.
“So if you can get one of those elite players at one of those non-premium positions – (especially) in a draft like the one we just had (with limited blue-chip prospects) – that’s just doing it smart, in my opinion.”
Listen to the full conversation with NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah at this link or in the audio player at the bottom of this story. Tune in to Brock and Salk weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.
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