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Orange is the new – well, orange.
The orange WNBA logo hoodie was the most popular item this season across official online retail partner Fanatics’ network of e-commerce sites, including WNBAStore.com, and the best-selling WNBA item ever, league officials announced today.
The hoodie was worn by young and old, male and female, athletes and grocery store workers with wearers proudly posting themselves sporting it.
The WNBA released its list of Most Popular Team Merchandise and Jersey lists based on the WNBAStore.com sales since the start of the 2020 regular season. The Seattle Storm and 11-time WNBA All-Star Sue Bird captured the top spots with Bird capturing the league’s most popular jerseys list for the first time in her career.
Bird and the Storm will face off with the Las Vegas Aces tonight in the 2020 WNBA Finals presented by YouTube TV beginning with Game 1 of a best-of-five series at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
Rounding out the top five among most popular jerseys are the Phoenix Mercury’s Diana Taurasi (No. 2), the Los Angeles Sparks’ Candace Parker (No. 3), the New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu (No. 4) and the Minnesota Lynx’s Maya Moore (No. 5).
The Storm landed atop the team merchandise list, jumping from No. 3 last season, followed by the Liberty at No. 2, the Sparks at No. 3, the Las Vegas Aces at No. 4 and the Lynx at No. 5.
Additionally, WNBA rookies Ionescu (No. 4) and Dallas Wings’ Satou Sabally (No. 10), as well as Chicago Sky’s Courtney Vandersloot (No. 9), make their debuts on the list.
Top 10 Most Popular WNBA Jerseys:
Sue Bird, Seattle Storm
Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Mercury
Candace Parker, Los Angeles Sparks
Sabrina Ionescu, New York Liberty
Maya Moore, Minnesota Lynx
A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
Breanna Stewart, Seattle Storm
Elena Delle Donne, Washington Mystics
Courtney Vandersloot, Chicago Sky
Satou Sabally, Dallas Wings
Top 5 Most Popular Team Merchandise:
Seattle Storm
New York Liberty
Los Angeles Sparks
Las Vegas Aces
Minnesota Lynx