Jacy Sheldon wasn't expecting to be approached to create a signature sneaker, but she joined the historic short list of female basketball players to hold the honor when Holo Footwear presented her with a deal she couldn't turn down. After the company gifted her a personalized version of NBA player Isaac Okoro’s shoe to show how much they understood her, and now, the newly traded Washington Mystics guard is displaying her personalized designs with pride.
“They presented [Okoro's] shoe, and they had a little strap on top of his shoe, and they kind of customized it to me,” Sheldon told her hometown news station in Ohio. “It had ‘Hear My Words,’ which is what my sister says to me before every game. And when I saw that, it was kind of like a moment of like, okay, these people, they get it.