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Storm F Camille Little scored a career-high 31 points in a win against Minnesota on Friday. She’s the fifth player in team history to reach the mark. C Lauren Jackson has scored 30-points or more 27 times in her 12-year Storm career. PG Sue Bird has scored 30-points or more twice in her 12-year career…

WNBA All-Star voting opens Tuesday at 11am PDT and concludes July 2. Fans have to vote for a traditional “starting five,” the Storm submitting Sue Bird, Tanisha Wright, Camille Little, Crystal Langhorne and Shekinna Stricklen as part of the official 60-player ballot representing the 12 WNBA teams. The WNBA will announce the All-Star starters on…

A simple but complicated question was posed on Twitter: @JaydaEvans: How can #SeattleStorm become better? — SEAHAWKS fanatic (@ichiro998) May 18, 2014 You may have noticed something different to start the Storm season. Two games into the schedule and everyone on the roster has logged seven minutes or more, including league veteran Nicole Powell, who…

The Storm lost 74-67 in an exhibition game against Los Angeles on Sunday. It was Seattle’s only sanctioned WNBA warm-up due to scheduling conflicts to organize the standard two. With the regular-season opener Friday and the core having only been together since Saturday, you have to wonder if it’ll be enough. The Storm…

Utah’s grinding defensive style is paying off for Michelle Plouffe at Storm training camp. Drafted in the second-round by Seattle in April, Plouffe filled an early training-camp necessity in Storm coach Brian Agler needing bodies to fill out practices sans his main starters and All-Star Sue Bird due to overseas playing commitments. But with the…

Storm stars Camille Little and Tanisha Wright helped lead their Turkish team to a club-first EuroLeague Final Eight appearance held in Ekaterinburg this week. It’s also Wright and Little’s first time playing with the club, Kayseri Kaski spor. The team opened pool play Monday against Turkish rival Fenerbahce, which features WNBA All-Stars Cappie…

Storm F Camille Little re-signed with Seattle on Monday. It’s a multiyear deal but terms of the deal were not immediately released. Little, a full-time starter since she was traded to Seattle from Atlanta in 2008, was a key member of the Storm’s 2010 WNBA championship team. The 6-foot-2 North Carolina native didn’t miss a…

Storm stars Tanisha Wright and Camille Little did what was needed to help their Turkish team Kayseri Kaski spor advance to the prestigious EuroLeague Final Eight. Kayseri defeated Beretta Famila Schio 63-61 on Wednesday to clinch the deciding game in the best-of-three ELW series. Wright had 19 points and seven rebounds while Little…

Storm stars Tanisha Wright and Camille Little are making a little history for their Turkish team during the WNBA offseason. They didn’t aim to play together for Kayseri Kaski spor this winter but their respective agents were able to work deals that ended up with them both headed to Turkey and they’re continuing their…

Storm F Camille Little
PHOTO: Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times

Series Note: The Storm was swept in the opening-round of the WNBA playoffs by Minnesota on Sept. 22. Game 2 was played at the Tacoma Dome due to a scheduling conflict at the team’s KeyArena court by one of its sponsors, Microsoft. Minnesota went on to win the Western Conference championship as Seattle players dispersed to offseason destinations the following days after holding exit interviews with coaches and the media. This series will feature conversations from the 11-player roster.

The WNBA offseason won’t feel as long given news the league should generate on the business side. The league’s collective-bargaining agreement expired Sept. 30 and a new agreement will need to be in place before free-agency can open as tentatively slated in February. The 2014 WNBA schedule likely will be moved up to accommodate for the 2014 FIBA World Championships in Turkey from Sept. 27-Oct. 5.

Storm-wise, the team could remain the same in 2014. Here’s a conversation with F Camille Little, who took on the co-captain role as franchise leaders PG Sue Bird (knee) and C Lauren Jackson (hamstring) rehabilitated offseason surgeries. Little, 28, had a slight dip in numbers while increasing her minutes to 30.2. She teamed with F Tina Thompson inside to average 10.9 points and 4.7 rebounds. But Little shot 28.7 percent from three-point range after an improved 33.3 percent in 2012.

Seattle Times: How do you wrap up the season?

Little: It’s weird, bittersweet. Obviously I really had a great time with this group of women. It was a special team and I’m sure Brian (Agler) and the coaches would say that. It was a special group and I’m really happy, just glad that we held to our standards and fought the entire season. We all know a lot of people didn’t count on us making it to the postseason, let alone give Minnesota the run that we did. So, I’m just happy we played well and played hard. You know, 10 consecutive years making the playoffs — doing it without Sue and Lauren this year, finishing at .500. It was a tough season all the way around, but we did a great job of using what we had to our advantage. We were a tough team to play against.