After 21 years in the WNBA, all with the Seattle Storm, Sue Bird retired in 2022 as one of the most successful players of all time. Three years later, in 2025, the Storm are honoring the greatest player in franchise history with a statue ahead of their game on Sunday against the Phoenix Mercury.

The gesture will make Bird the first player in WNBA history to receive a statue. Bird, who has remained eternally grateful for the organization with which she built her career, confessed her love to the city of Seattle hours before her statue unveiling.

“It's given me a home,” Bird told reporters. “This city has given me a home, a place where I can have a career, a place where I've felt welcome. A place where I really grew up. In a lot of ways, I really grew up here; I've learned how to be an

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