Join the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter and get behind-the-scenes access and unrivalled insightJoin the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletterJoin the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletterEntering its 30th season, the three-time WNBA champion Phoenix Mercury has released new logos for the upcoming season on Monday. The Mercury debuted in 1997 as one of the WNBA’s original eight teams, winning titles in 2007, 2009 and 2014 with a core that was built around 11-time All-Star Diana Taurasi. Team President Vince Kozar said it’s the right time to give the organization an update as it enters its 30th season in the league. The Mercury will still lean on their original color scheme that’s mainly purple and orange, but wanted a bigger variety of logos to expand their ability to do advertising and sell merchandise.“Being sort of a legacy brand was instructive to the process of us developing a rebrand,” Kozar said. “We didn’t want a huge departure. We wanted fans to be able to see the old mark in the new marks. We wanted a modernization and evolution — not a wholesale rebrand.Introducing the Alternate logo.Debuting in 2021 as a nod to the X-Factor, the PHX mark embodies the connection between our team and the community. Swipe to see how this design creates identity. pic.twitter.com/bcvzAwxsUL— Phoenix Mercury (@PhoenixMercury) November 24, 2025 “Once we were able to settle on that, we were really comfortable moving forward.”The new logos have several subtle nods to the team’s history. The primary logo is the Mercury “M” that’s positioned at an angle of 19.97 degrees, which references the inaugural season.Another logo features the popular “Merc” nickname, which has been used by players and fans for years. Kozar credited Ishbia with being willing to open his wallet for a change that comes with plenty of cost.“Stuff like this — I’m not quite sure fans quite understand the amount of investment it takes to do something like this,” Kozar said. “Not only the brand work, the design work and all the effort we’re putting into the announcement, but there’s a lot of stuff that has to be swapped out.“The old logo exists in a lot of places. There’s a hard cost to doing things like that, but with Mat, that never seems to be a consideration.”The rebrand comes less than two years after the franchise unveiled a $100 million, 58,000-square foot practice facility that’s about a block from the team’s arena. It has two full-size…
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