{"id":551698,"date":"2026-03-29T04:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551698\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:23:17","slug":"caitlin-clark-scores-2nd-best-selling-jersey-across-wnba-and-nba-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551698\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Scores 2nd Best-Selling Jersey Across WNBA and NBA Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 22 kit of Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark weighed in as last fall&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIuPYwiTZof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">second best-selling basketball jersey<\/a> in the US according to sports outfitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanatics.com\/best-selling-jerseys\/x-169279+z-93820000-2061647579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fanatics<\/a>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/caitlin-clark-wins-2024-wnba-rookie-of-the-year-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year<\/a> trailing only NBA superstar Steph Curry on the top sales list.<\/p>\n<p>Clark&#8217;s merch dominance is nothing new, however. Her Indiana jersey\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/caitlin-clark-nike-deal-esignature-shoe-wnba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sold out<\/a>\u00a0less than an hour after the Fever drafted her as the overall No. 1 pick in April 2024, making Clark the top seller of any draft night pick in the company&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Even more, Clark&#8217;s merchandise led last season&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boardroom\/status\/1826285414572802164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">record-shattering WNBA sales<\/a>, with Fanatics reporting that 2024 sales of player-specific gear earned a jaw-dropping 1,000% year-over-year increase by last summer&#8217;s All-Star break \u2014\u00a0in large part thanks to the 2024 WNBA rookie class.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow 2024 WNBA debutants Chicago Sky standout Angel Reese and then-Las Vegas Aces guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DDQSWrzypc_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kate Martin<\/a> \u2014 Clark&#8217;s NCAA teammate at Iowa \u2014 trailed the Fever star with the league&#8217;s second- and fourth-most merchandise sales, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>This year, a new WNBA rookie could give Clark a run for her money, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/increased-spending-expected-if-paige-buecker-dallas-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">No. 5 Dallas Wings\u00a0jersey<\/a> for 2025&#8217;s No. 1 draft pick, <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/dallas-takes-uconn-star-paige-bueckers-no-1-overall-at-the-2025-wnba-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Paige Bueckers<\/a>, is already doing numbers at retailers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Already a brand mogul in her own right, Bueckers topped the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/sports\/uconn-womens-basketball\/article\/paige-bueckers-nil-net-worth-stats-today-2024-sale-20011081.php?utm_source=newsletter.justwomenssports.com&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=04-22-25-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2024 NIL list<\/a>\u00a0as college basketball\u2019s biggest earner via endorsement deals and merchandise sales prior to going pro.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 22 kit of Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark weighed in as last fall&#8217;s\u00a0second best-selling basketball jersey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[22084,3691,1760,2834,2839,7143,40563,1606,2833,245373,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-551698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-2025-wnba-draft","9":"tag-angel-reese","10":"tag-caitlin-clark","11":"tag-dallas-wings","12":"tag-indiana-fever","13":"tag-kate-martin","14":"tag-merchandise","15":"tag-nil","16":"tag-paige-bueckers","17":"tag-sales-record","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551698","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=551698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}