Sky star wont address irrelevant threat to women in first comments since Enes Kanter Freedom dustup

Speaking for the first time Saturday since her verbal altercation with Enes Kanter Freedom, Sky guard Natasha Cloud refused to give the situation additional attention.Instead, Cloud used her pregame availability to bring attention to greater threats to women and children, including domestic violence, sexual assault, ongoing food insecurity and access to health care.“I will not talk about any irrelevant threat to women because that’s exactly what it is,” Cloud said before the Sky played the Liberty.“I want to talk about real issues that face women and it’s not our trans human beings, and it’s not our drag queens, it’s not our gay community.

There is a certain demographic of people that you can general search — it’s a simple, good search of ‘What is the greatest threat to women and children currently in 2026 in the United States of America’ — and it’s not going to be trans.”Freedom has inserted himself into the debate around the WNBA’s eligibility policies that’s caught fire since Fever guard Sophie Cunningham was quoted in an ESPN article last month saying she wanted “to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.” Freedom wore a shirt that read, “WOMAN noun.Adult human female,” as he sat courtside at the Fever’s 113-90 win in Chicago earlier this week to, in his words, support Cunningham.

He was removed, though, after getting into it with Cloud in the third quarter. Sky owner Michael Alter has since indefinitely barred Freedom from Chicago’s Wintrust Arena. Cloud expressed gratitude for Alter’s “immediate action” while also calling on the WNBA to follow suit by implementing a league-wide ban of Freedom. “We’re asking for protection, and that’s what protection looks like from a man,” Cloud said before Saturday’s Liberty-Sky game in Brooklyn.“We [cannot] allow [Freedom] into the arena before the game, but after the game, we can make...