{"id":78414,"date":"2025-07-20T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78414\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:25:11","slug":"wnba-star-has-plan-for-52575-in-cash-from-all-star-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78414\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA star has plan for $52,575 in cash from All-Star weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After joining the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/new-york-liberty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Liberty<\/a> for the 2025 season, Natasha Cloud just pulled off one of her most memorable wins yet. The 33-year-old guard captured the KIA Skills Challenge title during WNBA All-Star weekend, and she\u2019s already got big plans for the prize money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liberty veteran claims skills title, outpaces field in first try<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her first appearance at the event, Cloud topped a field that included Erica Wheeler, Allisha Gray, Skylar Diggins, and Courtney Williams. She kicked things off with a 34.1-second opening run, then edged Wheeler in the final round with a time of 36.4 seconds. Wheeler clocked 37.5 seconds, while defending champion Gray came in at 39.4 and was knocked out in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud earned $50,000 along with a $2,575 bonus for her performance, and she made it clear the cash is going to good use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>: <strong><a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/culture\/trending\/news\/i-tried-paige-bueckers-new-and-favorite-wingstop-meal\/5fdf7734e8d4d8d0190d224e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paige Bueckers loves Wing Stop; I gave a review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Natasha Cloud drops fastest run, plans to put prize toward new home<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a lot of money to help out my family,\u201d she said in a post-game video shared by the WNBA. \u201cWe\u2019re buying a home this offseason, so that\u2019s where this is headed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The win marked Cloud\u2019s first major All-Star moment and came during her debut weekend as an event participant.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after her victory, Liberty teammate Sabrina Ionescu made it a clean sweep for New York by winning the Starry 3-point contest. Ionescu cashed in $60,000 and another $2,575 bonus by sinking 30 total three-pointers, beating out Allisha Gray, Kelsey Plum, Lexie Hull, and Sonia Citron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a minute since I\u2019ve done this, so I was nervous,\u201d Ionescu said. \u201cBut it\u2019s amazing to win it with so many elite shooters out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The All-Star game is set for Saturday evening. WNBA action gets started again on Tuesday in regular-season action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More WNBA News:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After joining the New York Liberty for the 2025 season, Natasha Cloud just pulled off one of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-78414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114886497093052173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78414","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=78414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}