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USC guard JuJu Watkins has signed a historic multi-year take care of Fanatics. The deal makes her the primary feminine school athlete to signal such a contract.
Based on the Sports activities Enterprise Journal, the deal “contains autographed memorabilia (photographs and basketballs), in addition to buying and selling playing cards that can embrace Watkins’ autographs and game-worn objects.”
Along with that, Fanatics Collectibles is now “in a position to function Watkins in her USC uniform on its playing cards” and the primary customary challenge will seem within the 2025 Bowman College Chrome Basketball sequence. That set of playing cards is anticipated to be launched on April 3, 2025. The primary Bowman card of Duke basketball star Cooper Flagg, who signed an analogous take care of Fanatics in January, will even seem in that set.
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— Topps (@Topps) March 14, 2025
This information comes only a day after JuJu Watkins and her coach at USC, Lindsay Gottlieb, had been named as semifinalists for Coach of the Yr and Participant of the Yr by the Naismith Trophy Awards.
“She pushes me to be nice. She understands my imaginative and prescient and the usual that I maintain myself to, so we actually join with one another, and I’m grateful to have her,” Watkins mentioned about Gottlieb after surpassing NCAA all-time main scorer Caitlin Clark on the record of most factors by a ladies’s school basketball participant by their first two seasons.
Talking of Caitlin Clark, Gottlieb revealed this week that the WNBA star has supplied to assist the 19-year-old sophomore “navigate” the type of fame she is coping with as one of many greatest stars in school basketball. Watkins already had partnerships with Nike, Nyx, and Diploma earlier than signing the Fanatics deal.
“Simply to know that I’ve that help, it means loads,” Watkins instructed Individuals. Watkins added, “She’s only a tremendous dope individual and for her to try this, which means loads. However I haven’t reached out but.”
