WNBA Players Skipping Season to Fight For Racial Justice
"Now Is the Time": These WNBA Players Are Opting Out of a Season to Fight For Racial Justice
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Cloud, who won the WNBA Championship last year with the Mystics, said opting out of the 2020 season is "one of the toughest decisions of my career." She considered many factors, but the biggest was that "I am more than an athlete," she wrote in a statement on June 23. "I have a responsibility to myself, to my community and to my future children to fight for something that is much bigger than myself and the game of basketball. I will instead continue the fight for social reform, because until Black lives matter, all lives can't matter."