The Chicago Sky have signed Natasha Cloud, the crew introduced on Monday. Cloud was the very best participant obtainable in free company, and lots of had been shocked she remained unsigned by means of the preseason, given her sturdy observe file as a place to begin guard within the WNBA.
“Natasha is among the finest passers and defenders in our league,” Chicago basic supervisor Jeff Pagliocca stated Monday in an announcement. “She matches in with the opposite confirmed winners on our roster.”
Cloud was drafted in 2025 and spent the primary 8 years of her profession on the Washington Mystics. In 2024, she was on the Phoenix Mercury earlier than becoming a member of the New York Liberty final yr. She’s began 283 of 327 profession video games, averaging 8.8 factors, 5.3 assists, and 1 steal.
Final season, she averaged 10.1 factors, 3.7 rebounds, 5.1 assists, and 1.2 steals in 41 video games for the New York Liberty final season. ESPN’s Alexa Phillippou reported that Cloud’s contract is a one-year, $555,000 deal.
The signing helps clarify, partly, why second-year Hailey Van Lith was waived earlier within the day. Van Lith, who was the Sky’s 2025 first-round choose, had a powerful preseason however was nonetheless minimize on Monday morning. ESPN’s Kendra Andrews additionally reported that the choice to chop Van Lith was based mostly on the teaching workers’s “style-of-play desire.”
Cloud now joins a new-look Chicago Sky roster that features Skylar Diggins, Rickea Jackson, DiJonai Carrington, Azura Stevens, and Jacy Sheldon, in addition to returners like Kamilla Cardoso, Rachel Banham, and Maddy Westbeld.
The crew did not make the playoffs final season, however was nearly solely overhauled within the offseason. They went 0-2 within the preseason, with losses in opposition to the Atlanta Dream and Phoenix Mercury.
The Sky’s season opener is on Saturday, Might ninth, in opposition to the Portland Fireplace.
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