Cloud won the WNBA Championship last year with the Washington Mystics and opted out of the season to fight for racial justice. "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." Since then, Cloud has used her platform to encourage people to vote while speaking out against continued racism and injustice. "When we take those jerseys off WE ARE BLACK and because of that we are not valued and our lives are constantly threatened," she wrote on Instagram after the games were postponed. "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."
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