{"title":"Sue Bird Signed Memorabilia","description":"\u003cp\u003eSue Bird is a point guard best known for her career with the Seattle Storm, her time at UConn, and her appearances with the USA Olympic basketball team. For collectors, that range across college, WNBA, and international play means signed pieces from Bird can represent several distinct chapters of her career, from Connecticut blue to Storm green to Olympic red.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes a PSA-graded signed Seattle Storm basketball card, along with autographed jerseys representing all three eras: Seattle Storm green, UConn Connecticut blue, and USA Olympics red, each carrying a JSA certificate of authenticity. Several of the jerseys are also available framed at 35x39 inches, ready for display. Buyers should check the JSA COA details and note whether a piece is framed or unframed, and which team colorway matches the era of Bird's career they're collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sue-bird-2020-panini-prizm-wnba-signatures-30-psa-9","title":"Sue Bird Signed Seattle Storm Basketball Card PSA 9","description":"\u003ch2\u003e🏀 Sue Bird Signed Seattle Storm Card PSA 9\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eSue Bird redefined point guard play across two decades with the Seattle Storm, becoming one of the winningest players in basketball history. This PSA 9 Mint graded, signed card honors that legendary career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ A must-have for WNBA collectors and Seattle Storm fans following Sue Bird's legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e📋 Item Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e🔹 Player: Sue Bird\u003cbr\u003e🔹 Team: Seattle Storm\u003cbr\u003e🔹 PSA 9 Mint graded\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: PSA 9 Mint.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Price Is Right Miami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47675285438696,"sku":"47675285438696","price":222.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/psa-9-mint-sue-bird-signed-basketball-card-seattle-storm-legend-vintage-treasures-antique-552.webp?v=1757687459"},{"product_id":"framed-autographed-signed-sue-bird-35x39-seattle-green-basketball-jersey-jsa-coa","title":"Framed Autographed\/Signed Sue Bird 35x39 Seattle Green Basketball Jersey JSA COA","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏀 \u003cstrong\u003eFramed Autographed\/Signed Sue Bird 35x39 Seattle Storm Green Basketball Jersey — JSA COA — The Elegantly Framed Hand-Signed Seattle Storm Green Jersey Authenticated by James Spence Authentication Bearing the Signature of One of the Greatest Players in the History of Women's Basketball, the Syosset New York Native and UConn Huskies Legend Who Spent 21 Seasons as the Seattle Storm's Franchise Point Guard, Won Four WNBA Championships, Captured Five Olympic Gold Medals, and Retired in 2022 as the Undisputed Greatest Player in the History of the Seattle Storm Franchise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Twenty-one seasons in one city is a type of professional loyalty that the modern sports landscape produces rarely — a point guard who arrived in Seattle in 2002 as the second pick in the WNBA Draft and built the entirety of her professional career there, through roster changes and coaching transitions and the particular arc of a franchise that grew from a young organization into one of the most decorated in WNBA history, with Bird at the center of everything the Storm accomplished. Her relationship with Seattle is the kind of player-city bond that produces lifelong fandom, the kind that makes a framed game jersey from the franchise's most important player something that belongs in any serious collection of Seattle sports history alongside the names that Pacific Northwest sports fans carry in their memories permanently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Bird was born on October 16, 1980, in Syosset, New York — a Long Island community whose proximity to New York City basketball culture gave her early exposure to the sport at a level that prepared her for the UConn Huskies program, where she played under Geno Auriemma during the most dominant period in women's college basketball history. Two national championships at UConn — part of an extraordinary run of success for the Huskies program — established Bird as the most decorated point guard in the college game before she arrived in Seattle with the basketball IQ, the court vision, and the competitive character that would define her two-decade professional career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The statistical biography is extraordinary: four WNBA championships (2004, 2010, 2018, 2020), 13 WNBA All-Star selections, five Olympic gold medals representing the United States across an athletic career that spanned five Summer Olympics, the WNBA's all-time assists leader, and a 2024 Basketball Hall of Fame induction that placed her alongside the greatest players in the global history of the game. The Seattle Storm green jersey — the color most associated with the franchise and with the Bird era — bears her signature in a piece professionally framed in a 35x39 display frame, authenticated by James Spence Authentication (JSA) with a Certificate of Authenticity included. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Sue Bird. Syosset, New York. UConn Huskies. Seattle Storm. 21 WNBA Seasons. Four WNBA Championships. 13 All-Star Selections. Five Olympic Gold Medals. WNBA All-Time Assists Leader. Basketball Hall of Fame 2024. Seattle Green Jersey. Framed Autograph. JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039525482728,"sku":"FJ-SUEBIRD-SEA-GREEN-JSA","price":599.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/framed-autographed-signed-sue-bird-35x39-seattle-green-basketball-jersey-jsa-coa-vintage-678.webp?v=1770209113"},{"product_id":"autographed-signed-sue-bird-uconn-connecticut-blue-college-basketball-jersey-jsa-coa","title":"Autographed\/Signed Sue Bird UConn Connecticut Blue College Basketball Jersey JSA COA","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏀 \u003cstrong\u003eAutographed\/Signed Sue Bird UConn Connecticut Blue College Basketball Jersey JSA COA – The Hand-Signed University of Connecticut Huskies Blue College Basketball Jersey of One of the Greatest Point Guards in the History of Women's Basketball, 4x WNBA Champion, 5x Olympic Gold Medalist, and 21-Year Standout with the Seattle Storm, Certified Authentic by JSA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 There is a line that runs from the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs through the WNBA championships in Seattle, and Sue Bird walked every step of it. She arrived at UConn in 1998 under Geno Auriemma, the architect of the greatest dynasty in women's college basketball, and she left two national championships later as the player who had most completely embodied what Auriemma's system demanded: precision, leadership, basketball IQ that ran ahead of every other player on the floor at every moment. The 2000 and 2002 national championships with the Huskies were the beginning. Everything that came after was the proof. 🏀\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The Seattle Storm selected her with the first overall pick of the 2002 WNBA Draft. She played 21 seasons with that franchise – an almost inconceivable tenure by the standards of professional sports at any level – and she won four WNBA championships in that time (2004, 2010, 2018, 2020). She also wore the USA Basketball uniform for five Olympic Games, winning five gold medals in the process. She retired after the 2022 season as the most decorated player in WNBA history and one of the most decorated basketball players of any era. 🏀\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 This hand-signed UConn Connecticut blue college basketball jersey, certified authentic by JSA, brings Bird's autograph to the jersey of the program where the story started – the UConn uniform she wore as a college player before the professional career that redefined every standard the sport had set for longevity, excellence, and championship impact. Condition: NOS. 🏀\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Sue Bird. Seattle Storm. UConn Huskies. 4x WNBA Champion. 5x Olympic Gold. 12x WNBA All-Star. Blue College Jersey. Hand-Signed. JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Autographed Sue Bird UConn Connecticut Blue College Basketball Jersey JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports. 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The UConn blue she wore at Storrs carries the weight of two national championships, an undefeated season, a Naismith Award, and the beginning of a career that went on to become the most decorated in the history of women's professional basketball. The 35x39 framed jersey, hand-signed by Bird and authenticated by JSA, is the physical artifact of where everything began. 🏀\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Sue Bird was born October 16, 1980, in Syosset, New York, on Long Island, and developed as a basketball player through the New York City metro area system that has produced a disproportionate share of elite basketball talent. She chose UConn, which under Auriemma had already established itself as the premier women's basketball program in the country, and she arrived in Storrs in 1998 as a point guard whose combination of court vision, passing ability, basketball IQ, and competitive disposition aligned precisely with what the Auriemma system demanded and rewarded. 🏀\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The UConn career produced two national championships – 2000 and 2002 – and a Naismith College Player of the Year Award in 2002, recognizing what coaches, players, and observers had been watching for four seasons: a point guard who made every player around her better, who controlled the pace and tempo of every game she played in, and who competed with an intensity that defined the standard for everyone else on the floor. The Connecticut blue jersey represents those four seasons in Storrs, those two championship runs, and the player who walked out of college as the most complete point guard prospect women's basketball had produced. ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The Seattle Storm selected Bird with the first overall pick in the 2002 WNBA Draft, and she spent her entire professional career in Seattle, accumulating a resume that has no equivalent in the history of the league. Four WNBA Championships: 2004, 2010, 2018, and 2020. Thirteen WNBA All-Star Game selections. Four Olympic gold medals representing the United States in 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 – four consecutive Olympic gold medals on the basketball court, establishing the record for the most Olympic gold medals won by any WNBA player in the history of the league's participation in the Olympics. The longevity alone is remarkable: a twenty-year WNBA career that never showed a meaningful decline in the mental and positional qualities that defined her game from the beginning. 🏆\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 She retired in 2022, and the retirement cemented a legacy that had been clear to anyone paying attention for years: the greatest player in the history of the WNBA, measured by the completeness of the resume, the length of the excellence, and the impact on every team and every league she competed in. The UConn blue college jersey signed by Sue Bird connects to the beginning of that legacy – the place where a player who would go on to win everything first learned, under the most demanding coach in her sport, what it meant to win. The JSA Certificate of Authenticity verifies the signature on the 35x39 framed display. 🎴\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Sue Bird. Point Guard. Seattle Storm. Syosset, New York. UConn Huskies. 2x NCAA National Champion (2000, 2002). 2002 Naismith Award. 2002 WNBA Draft 1st Overall Pick. 4x WNBA Champion (2004, 2010, 2018, 2020). 13x WNBA All-Star. 4x Olympic Gold Medalist (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016). 35x39 Framed UConn Blue College Basketball Jersey. JSA COA Certified. Autographed Sports Memorabilia. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Framed Autographed\/Signed Sue Bird 35x39 UConn Connecticut Blue College Basketball Jersey JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports. 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