Katie Lou Samuelson out for the season, per ESPN’s injury feed: the 15.3 minutes the Storm have to replace

The read

Katie Lou Samuelson played every one of the Storm’s last five games — 15.8 minutes a night, no starts — so ESPN’s Out (left knee) listing removes a role the Storm have not yet had to replace in the window we can observe. The betting question is who takes those minutes, and no box score answers it yet.

The listing

The listing: ESPN’s WNBA injury feed carries Katie Lou Samuelson as Out with a left knee injury, last updated Sep 11 at 2:10 PM ET, marked out for the rest of the season. That is ESPN’s status, not the league’s official injury report.

Her role and the rotation

Her 2026 regular season in the ESPN game log: 32 games, 4.4 points, 2.1 rebounds and 0.8 assists in 15.3 minutes. Over her last 10 of those games she averaged 4.2 points in 14.3 minutes.

The Storm are 5-27 in the 32 games she has played and 3-5 in the 8 she has not. A split like that mixes opponents, dates and every other lineup change, so it describes the season rather than measuring her.

In the Storm’s last five games she started none and played 15.8 minutes a night. The healthy players with the heaviest minutes in that window are Flau'jae Johnson (27.8 min), Dominique Malonga (27.4 min) and Zia Cooke (17.8 min); how her minutes divide among them is not yet established.

She is not the team’s only listing: ESPN’s feed also carries Jade Melbourne (Day-To-Day), Ezi Magbegor (Out), Awa Fam (Out) and Natisha Hiedeman (Out).

The Seattle Storm are 8-32, the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference, 23 games back, 2-8 over their last 10, scoring 82.9 a game and allowing 88.2.

The market

The next price: in PropBetEdge’s latest capture for LV at SEA (Sep 17), Aces are 8.5-point favorites and the total sits at 173.5. With the bookmaker margin removed, the market’s consensus makes the Storm a 24% winner — a market benchmark, not a PropBetEdge projection.

That capture (Sep 11, 6:00 PM ET, 9 books) was taken later the same day as the feed’s update, so the listing was public when the price was set.

What matters next

What to watch: the Storm’s next game, LV at SEA on Thursday, September 17; the first box score without her, which is the first real evidence of who takes her minutes; and player-prop lines, captured only inside 36 hours of tip.