The Black women reppin’ the Jordan Brand in the WNBA

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But it didn’t come from the Jordan Brand’s official @Jumpman23 handle, or even one of the brand’s NBA athletes in the playoffs. While in Germany, preparing to compete in a FIBA 3×3 Olympic-qualifying tournament, 23-year-old women’s basketball star Satou Sabally received a box featuring the Air Jordan 36 and didn’t hesitate to show off the new sneaker on Instagram and Twitter:

That’s right: A woman unveiled the next model of Michael Jordan’s storied line of sneakers. But Sabally isn’t the only one representing the brand in the WNBA. Now in its 25th season, the league has more players rocking the Jumpman logo on their feet than ever. It’s just been a long time coming.

In September 1997 (six months before Sabally was born), when Nike officially launched the Jordan Brand as a subdivision of the global footwear company, Michael Jordan handpicked an exclusive group of young, up-and-coming NBA players to form “Team Jordan.”

Five men made the Jumpman roster — Ray Allen, Derek Anderson, Michael Finley, Eddie Jones and Vin Baker — as the Chicago Bulls embarked upon their “Last Dance” season and Jordan began to transition from hooper to businessman. By 1998, the Jordan Brand expanded even further in basketball, releasing its first women’s sneaker, designed by Nike’s first African American footwear designer, Wilson Smith III, and dubbed the Women’s Air Jordan. But it wasn’t until 2011 that the brand found its face of women’s basketball, when Maya Moore became the first woman to sign an endorsement deal with the Jordan Brand. She repped the Jumpman on the court while hoisting four WNBA titles before stepping away from basketball in 2019 to focus on off-the-court initiatives, from ministry to criminal justice reform.
A decade later and Moore, who’s sitting out for a third season, is no longer the lone Jumpwoman. In 2019, the brand began adding to its women’s roster, with the signings of New York Liberty guards Kia Nurse and Asia Durr. And now, there’s a collective of 11 WNBA players endorsing the brand: