Source: No investigation into Storm assistant

The WNBA followed up connected an allegation that a Seattle Storm adjunct manager cursed astatine a Las Vegas Aces subordinate aft the teams' crippled Sunday successful Seattle, a league root with cognition of the concern said Wednesday. However, the root said determination is not an probe into the Storm.

The root did not accidental who made the allegation oregon whom it was against. The Aces bushed the Storm 75-70 astatine Climate Pledge Arena. It was the teams' 2nd gathering this season; the Storm won the archetypal 102-82 connected May 25 successful Seattle.

After past season, longtime Storm subordinate Jewell Loyd filed a ailment against Seattle's coaching staff, sources told ESPN. Subsequently, she requested a commercialized and was sent to Las Vegas successful a three-team woody Feb. 1.

The Storm hired a instrumentality steadfast to analyse the accusations of harassment and bullying by the team's coaches regarding subordinate performance. The completion of that probe was announced successful December with nary uncovering of immoderate violations.

Storm caput manager Noelle Quinn told reporters successful February, "I judge that the enactment did the close thing. Throughout this full process, the connection level was tremendously high. I felt supported successful a batch of ways and I cognize my unit felt supported arsenic well. With thing similar this, it is important to instrumentality the close steps and our enactment did that."