{"id":436177,"date":"2026-01-29T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436177\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:36:09","slug":"the-portland-fire-displayed-their-new-jersey-over-the-willamette-river-highlighting-one-of-the-teams-primary-design-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436177\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portland Fire displayed their new jersey over the Willamette River, highlighting one of the team’s primary design choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

To culminate the reveal of the 2026 uniforms<\/a>, the Portland Fire<\/a> displayed a giant version of their white \u201cHeroine\u201d jersey on a barge in the Willamette River right in front of the Fremont Bridge. <\/p>\n

Displaying the jersey over the river was intentional, as the Willamette River was featured heavily in the team\u2019s design choices. <\/p>\n

During a panel aboard the Portland Spirit, Clare Hamill, the team\u2019s interim president, said the patches on the sides of the jersey are curved in a way that represent the Willamette. <\/p>\n

That same pattern appears in the new \u201cPDX\u201d logo<\/a> that was also released on Wednesday morning. Between the \u201cP\u201d and the \u201cD\u201d is space that resembles the shapes on the sides of the jerseys. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked a lot about being intentional around Portland,\u201d Hamill said. <\/p>\n

Hamill wore a black Jackie Stiles Portland Fire jersey at Wednesday\u2019s event as she sat on a panel with general manager Vanja \u010cernivec and Stiles herself. <\/p>\n

Stiles was the No. 4 pick by the Fire in the 2001 WNBA Draft and was an immediate game changer for the franchise. She made 40.6% of her 3-pointers and averaged 11.4 points per game. She is still No. 12 in the WNBA\u2019s career 3-point percentage leaderboard. <\/p>\n

Hamill said the new jerseys and the use of the Fire name were an intentional way for the team to pay tribute to the team that ran from 2000-2002 while also looking forward to the team\u2019s future in the WNBA. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo we want to honor the past and the legacy of the original Fire and then move to the future with the spirit of Portland,\u201d Hamill said. \u201cWe feel really good about the jerseys. I think they\u2019re going to look great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamill added that the Fire are set to wear the white \u201cHeroine\u201d jerseys when they debut on May 9 against the Chicago Sky. <\/p>\n

When the team takes the court, Stiles said she wants to see the Fire make their mark on the city. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur greatness is not in what we have, it\u2019s what we give,\u201d said the Women\u2019s Basketball Hall of Famer. \u201cAnd I hope everybody\u2019s so unselfish, doesn\u2019t care who gets the credit. It\u2019s all about coming together for a cause bigger than yourself. And, you know, we want to make this community proud. And I just hope that they know that they are great role models to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To culminate the reveal of the 2026 uniforms, the Portland Fire displayed a giant version of their white…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-436177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}