WNBA player A’ja Wilson, presently with the defending champion Las Vegas Aces, has secured a shoe deal with Nike. The A’One releases in 2025.
One would think that the endorsement deal, combined with the fact that in her six years in the league, Wilson has won two MVP awards and two championships, would lead to one happy camper. Guess again.
“I think it’s a huge thing. I think a lot of people may say it’s not about Black and white, but to me, it is,” Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson said when asked about the race element in Clark’s popularity and before she recently signed two major endorsement deals. “It really is because you can be top notch at what you are as a Black woman, but yet maybe that’s something that people don’t want to see.
“They don’t see it as marketable, so it doesn’t matter how hard I work. It doesn’t matter what we all do as Black…
