‘Price tickets competitively’A rower and Olympic silver medalist in the sport, Gilder was living in Seattle and a Storm season-ticket holder when the Storm and the NBA’s SuperSonics were sold to businessman Clay Bennett in 2006.
Oklahoma was not going to care about a women’s team,” Gilder explains.
Now, the Storm is the WNBA’s most valuable team after it was valued at $151 million in 2023.
Leah Millis/ReutersThis year, former Storm player Sue Bird – one of the sport’s greats – joined the ownership group after playing her entire 19-year WNBA career with the team.
Seattle Storm co-owner Ginny Gilder poses for a photo on May 18, 2022.
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