Storm assistant's alleged use of profanity toward former player prompts WNBA review: report

The Seattle Storm are facing scrutiny again aft reports Wednesday indicated the WNBA has launched an probe into the team’s coaching staff. 

The squad was antecedently the taxable of a abstracted interior probe successful December. 

WNBA reporter Khristina Williams reported Wednesday that sources said the league and league information person launched a probe into the team’s coaching staff. Williams aboriginal added a root said the probe was linked to a erstwhile player. 

Seattle Storm players huddle earlier a crippled against the Atlanta Dream May 30, 2025, astatine Climate Pledge Arena successful Seattle.  (Jane Gershovich/NBAE via Getty Images)

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According to Williams, the ailment accused an adjunct manager of directing profanity astatine that unnamed player. 

But Annie Costabile of Front Office Sports reported a root with nonstop cognition called the inital reports "inaccurate." 

Costabile reported that an allegation of a squad adjunct cursing astatine a erstwhile subordinate aft Sunday’s crippled against the Las Vegas Aces was made, and the league reviewed the complaint. 

The Seattle Storm tally onto the tribunal earlier a crippled against the Dallas Wings June 3, 2025, astatine Climate Pledge Arena successful Seattle.  (Scott Eklund/NBAE via Getty Images)

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The Seattle Storm directed inquiries to the league erstwhile reached for comment. The WNBA did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

The Storm hired extracurricular counsel past twelvemonth to analyse allegations of bullying and harassment by the coaching staff. The probe concluded that determination were nary violations of workplace misconduct. 

Seattle Storm manager Noelle Quinn reacts against the LA Sparks successful the archetypal fractional astatine Crypto.com Arena Sept. 11, 2024. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

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"I judge that the enactment did the close thing," Storm manager Noelle Quinn said successful February. "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."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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