and the first player to have a signature shoe – The Nike ‘Air Swoopes’. But before all of this, it was the NBA’s late commissioner, David Stern, who helped realize her basketball dream and ...

Led by Marni Gerber, a senior design director at Nike Headquarters, the Air Swoopes came to fruition. It was a seminal moment for female athletes around the world but especially for basketball ...

Swoopes became the first woman to sign with the WNBA in 1996, and the first Black woman with her own Nike signature shoe, the Air Swoopes. Wilson, the Las Vegas Aces center and two-time WNBA ...

Sheryl Swoopes wearing her Houston Sports Hall of Fame jacket during the 2022 Houston Sports Awards. / IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire Las Vegas Aces superstar and 2024 WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson had a release ...

WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes was present at A'ja Wilson's signature shoe event, saying some supporting words to the Las Vegas Aces center. She celebrated the fact that Wilson finally got her ...

Expand Tweet Swoopes got her signature Nike Air Swoopes shoe in 1995. The WNBA legend had seven silhouettes in the Air Swoopes series, most by any WNBA player in Nike's history.

An NBA All-Star kept it real with Sheryl Swoopes following her critical comments on Fever star rookie Caitlin Clark. The All-Star guard had one of the best rookie seasons in WNBA history ...

After a two-year hiatus from the WNBA, Swoopes returned to the league at the age of 40 when she signed with the Tulsa Shock in March of 2011. “The only reason why I’m doing it is because I ...