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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The first female basketball player to create a signature sneaker happened before the WNBA’s inaugural season, with the release of Sheryl Swoopes’ Nike Air Swoopes in 1995. Signature sneakers ...