- ABC News
- May 30, 2021
Seattle Storm coach Dan Hughes, a WNBA champion and two-time Coach of the Year, announced his retirement on Sunday. Hughes, 66, spent more than two decades coaching in the WNBA, with previous stints in Charlotte, Cleveland and San Antonio. He led the Storm to the 2018 championship and built the team that won the 2020 championship with Gary Kloppenburg on the sidelines after Hughes was not medically cleared to travel to the WNBA's campus site for the season. In a statement through the team on Sunday, Hughes said the "Storm is in amazing shape, after two championships and a terrific playoff run in 2019." Noelle Quinn, who played for the Storm before retiring to join the coaching staff in 2019, will take over as coach, inheriting a team that had the WNBA's second-best record at 5-1 entering Sunday's games. "You never know when the right time is," Hughes told ESPN on Sunday. "I have this conversation with a lot of us older coaches. To be honest with you, the time seems to be right....