{"id":65902,"date":"2025-07-14T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65902\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:40:08","slug":"portlands-wnba-team-drops-another-name-hint-before-the-official-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65902\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland\u2019s WNBA team drops another name hint before the official announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/search\/?query=portland%20wnba\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/search\/?query=portland%20wnba\">Portland\u2019s WNBA team<\/a> is rumored to re-ignite the original \u201cPortland Fire\u201d name and brand identity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Portland\u2019s WNBA expansion team was officially announced back in September 2024, in a collaborative Instagram post captioned: \u201cThe city of Portland is going to be on fire.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Jul. 14, the team\u2019s Instagram account, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wnbaportland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wnbaportland\/\">@wbnaportland<\/a>, posted a black and white image with the text: \u201cOur fire never died,\u201d further leading to name speculation among the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Portland Fire was the name of the previous Portland WNBA team from 2000 to 2002, and in June, the team filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the name \u201cPortland Fire.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team brand and name will be officially announced Tuesday, Jul. 15, at the Moda Center. Watch FOX 12 starting at 6 a.m. to see the big event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; Portland\u2019s WNBA team is rumored to re-ignite the original \u201cPortland Fire\u201d name and brand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232,26719,26720],"class_list":["post-65902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-hoop","tag-wnba-logo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}