{"id":560219,"date":"2026-04-02T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560219\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:01:08","slug":"phoenix-mercury-add-hero-bread-as-newest-jersey-patch-in-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560219\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury add Hero Bread as newest jersey patch in rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mercury Hero Bread patch\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABITDIV6DFHNXPIXKFBAMRKOXQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"523\"\/>The S.F.-based bread company is the Mercury\u2019s third jersey badge sponsor after partnering with Partake Foods and Flipper\u2019s over the past two years.  Mercury <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-marketing-and-sponsorship \">The Mercury on Wednesday unveiled that Hero Bread \u201cwill be the team\u2019s new official jersey badge partner during the 2026 season.\u201d The S.F.-based bread company is the Mercury\u2019s third jersey badge sponsor after partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/04\/09\/phoenix-suns-mercury-cleveland-avenue?hl=mercury&amp;sc=0&amp;publicationSource=search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Partake Foods<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/12\/mercury-add-new-jersey-patch-partner-for-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flipper\u2019s<\/a> over the past two years. However, it will be the first partnership to be featured on the team\u2019s new jerseys following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/24\/mercury-initiate-rebrand-in-honor-of-upcoming-30th-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a\u202frebrand\u202fin November<\/a>. Mercury President Vince Kozar said that this is the latest of the team\u2019s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/04\/17\/phoenix-mercury-partake-foods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rotating badge platform<\/a>.&#8221; The Hero Bread jersey badge \u201cwill make its debut on April 25\u201d when the Mercury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/23\/wnba-to-play-first-ever-game-in-south-dakota-next-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">take on the Sky in South Dakota<\/a> in the team\u2019s first preseason game (<a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/threads\/mercury-hero-bread\/3616486\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ARIZONA SPORTS, 4\/1<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The S.F.-based bread company is the Mercury\u2019s third jersey badge sponsor after partnering with Partake Foods and Flipper\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,167,99,434,1765],"class_list":{"0":"post-560219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-deals","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba","12":"tag-womens-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560219","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=560219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}