In her Woodinville bedroom, 12-year-old Samantha Pell is sleeping under her "Storm wall" and dreaming basketball dreams again. She has also returned to Starbucks, ending a one-girl boycott she started after company CEO Howard Schultz sold the Seattle Storm to Oklahoma businessman Clay Bennett. "I decided I didn't want to give Howard Schultz any more money because he probably knew Clay Bennett was going to move the Storm to Oklahoma," Samantha said the other day. "So I didn't even go into the store." That changed last week, when it was announced that four Seattle businesswomen — Anne Levinson, Lisa Brummel, Dawn Trudeau and Ginny Gilder — had bought the Storm from Bennett for $10 million. The team will stay put and stay local, under owners who were once girls like Samantha.

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