When the entirety of the sports landscape closed down last March, it had to be one of the most surreal happenings we will ever experience in our lives.
Not only did sports shut down due to the onset of the coronavirus, but it occurred in March, often a much-anticipated month on the sports calendar in the United States because of the NCAA’s women’s and men’s basketball tournaments.
HBO will release a documentary that will air on March 24 called “The Day Sports Stood Still,” told mostly through the eyes of Chris Paul – an executive producer for the HBO project. Natasha Cloud is set to be part of that documentary.
Cloud last suited up in the WNBA for the Washington Mystics and is currently one of the few remaining free agents still available. After being part of Washington’s 2019 championship-winning squad, she sat out the WNBA’s bubble in 2020 to give greater attention to social justice issues.
She marched in the streets of Philadelphia and Washington in protest of the police killings of George Floyd in Minnesota and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. Cloud also pushed to have the Mystics’ home arena – the DC Sports and Entertainment Arena – as a polling place for the 2020 election. The DC ESA is in Ward 8 in a part of DC with a large Black population.
