She is every woman. Las Vegas Aces superstar and one of the leaders of Team USA, forward A’ja Wilson has reportedly signed a six-year contract extension with Nike, according to ESPN’s senior NBA insider Shams Charania.
The three-time WNBA MVP’s contract extension is “one of the richest shoe deals” in women’s basketball history, according to Charania.
Wilson’s signature shoe, the “A’One,” will be released this spring prior to the tip off of the 2025 WNBA season, which will be their twenty ninth. The two-time league champion signed on with Nike in May as one of the brand’s signature athletes.
“It’s been incredible working with Nike toward a dream of having my collection, and it really is an honor to take this next step and become a Nike signature athlete,” Wilson said in a statement after the announcement last spring. “From my logo to the look of the shoe and the pieces throughout the collection, we’ve worked to make sure every detail is perfectly tuned to my game and style.”
Wilson joins other notable female sports greats Serena Williams, Megan Rapinoe, Naomi Osaka, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and fellow WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu as part of Nike’s signature athlete’s lineup.
It has been an enormous year for women’s basketball shoe deals and popularity for the league as a whole.
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WNBA Rookie of the Year and Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark signed an eight-year deal worth a reported $28 million with Nike earlier this year. A signature shoe, which has yet to be released, is part of that agreement. USC star JuJu Watkins agreed to a lucrative extension with the brand in October. In May, Ionescu from the New York Liberty, second signature shoe, the Sabrina 2, was released.
In her seventh WNBA season out of the University of South Carolina, Wilson, 28, joined an exclusive club of WNBA legends, including Lauren Jackson, Sheryl Swoopes and Lisa Leslie, to win MVP honors three times. She was the first to win the award unanimously since Cynthia Cooper of the Houston Comets in 1997, the league’s inaugural season.
The former South Carolina national champion broke the league’s single-season scoring and rebounding records in 2024 and became the first player to record 1,000 points in a single campaign, finishing with 1,021 in the regular season.
Wilson also won her second Olympic gold medal this summer with USA Basketball, defeating France in the Gold Medal game, 67-66, taking home MVP for that competition as well.
