{"id":745885,"date":"2022-05-06T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=745885"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:00:22","slug":"no-1-overall-pick-rhyne-howard-signs-multi-year-deal-with-jordan-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wnba\/no-1-overall-pick-rhyne-howard-signs-multi-year-deal-with-jordan-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"No.1 Overall Pick Rhyne Howard Signs Multi-Year Deal With Jordan Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The iconic Jordan Brand has signed three WNBA played to their roster, highlighted by Atlanta Dream guard <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Rhyne+Howard\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Rhyne+Howard\" target=\"_blank\">Rhyne<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Rhyne+Howard\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Rhyne+Howard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Rhyne+Howard\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Rhyne+Howard\" target=\"_blank\">Howard<\/a>, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 W Draft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo join such an elite company is amazing,\u201d Howard <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jumpman23\/status\/1522250544496058368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1522250544496058368%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdefpen.com%2Frhyne-howard-signs-shoe-deal-jordan-brand%2F\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jumpman23\/status\/1522250544496058368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1522250544496058368%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdefpen.com%2Frhyne-howard-signs-shoe-deal-jordan-brand%2F\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cOverall, just super stoked to be a part of a family that cares about you on all levels in life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: WNBA #1 pick Rhyne Howard of the Atlanta Dream has signed a multi-year shoe deal with Jordan Brand. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uMXYtimf7x\">pic.twitter.com\/uMXYtimf7x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nick DePaula (@NickDePaula) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickDePaula\/status\/1522251611514413059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Isabelle+Harrison\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Isabelle+Harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isabelle Harrison<\/a> of the Dallas Wings and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Dana+Evans\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Dana+Evans\" target=\"_blank\">Dana Evans<\/a> are the other two recent Jordan Brand signees. Evans is the first  NBA or WNBA player that has won a championship in Chicago to sign with the brand since Jordan himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was always a sneakerhead, and now understanding that Jordans are a symbol of excellence and being a part of the Jordan Brand Family is everything I thought it would be and more,\u201d Evans <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jumpman23\/status\/1521525757700296706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1521525757700296706%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsneakershoptalk.com%2Fjordan-brand-adds-dana-evans%2F\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jumpman23\/status\/1521525757700296706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1521525757700296706%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsneakershoptalk.com%2Fjordan-brand-adds-dana-evans%2F\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Howard will make her professional debut on May 7, when the Dream takes on the Wings in College Park Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic Jordan Brand has signed three WNBA played to their roster, highlighted by Atlanta Dream guard Rhyne Howard, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 W Draft. \u201cTo join such an elite company is amazing,\u201d Howard said in a statement. \u201cOverall, just super stoked to be a part of a family that cares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":745909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63826,62493,21,64136],"tags":[2132,13005,13122,63943,13762,203,64100,1863,63726],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-745885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-newswire","category-wnba","category-wslam","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-dallas-wings","tag-dana-evans","tag-isabelle-harrison","tag-jordan-brand","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-wnba","tag-wslam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745907,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745885\/revisions\/745907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745885"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=745885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}