As an elite basketball veteran, Natasha Cloud has always been one of the most versatile and agile point guards in the W. Though she majorly contributed to Liberty’s 99–74 win against the Chicago Sky in game 2 of 2025, her clean steal from under Caitlin Clark during the final moments of the game against Indiana Fever grabbed eyeballs from every quarter in the league. “We’ve never had anyone quite like her [Cloud] before. we have someone who can get downhill and finish, but also create,” Sandy Brondello asserted after the moment.
Natasha Cloud has shown why she’s one of the best two-way guards in the league, and exactly a decade in, she looks unstoppable. So, what are the factors that shaped Natasha Cloud as we know her today?
Who are Natasha Cloud’s parents?
Born and raised in a quaint township of Broomall, Pennsylvania, by Emil Cloud and Sharon Cloud, Natasha attended a catholic high school, Cardinal O’ Hara, that ignited her passion for basketball. Talking about her parents, while Sharon is her biological mother, Emil is Natasha’s stepfather. Regarding her biological father, though, there are no verifiable details available publicly. However, Cloud had a bit to share.
“Everything stemmed from that situation, trying to find myself as a gray area kid. I couldn’t find my blackness because you weren’t there,” she had said, speaking of being a mixed kid. She was, in fact, the only mixed kid of her 4 siblings. However, she is grateful for her mother, who made the decision to raise her despite rarely having any support initially. And so she is for everything else that followed. “When you are talking about how strong I am as a woman, is how strong my parents were for me to give me life, to raise me, to love me as they did their other children,” she adds.
There’s little to nothing available on Emil and Sharon’s professional life publicly, but Natasha once revealed how her stepfather managed two jobs to run the house with five kids. She recalled that growing up, her parents instilled the right values that she would carry on throughout her life. “I still know the value of a dollar, I still know how to treat people because of how I was raised,” she says.
Where did Emil and Sharon Cloud meet?
There is no publicly available information that justifies where the couple met for the very first time or how they met. We have no record of their dating life or when they married, either. But what we do know is that the couple had families with other partners previously. Coming into the current union, both Emil and Sharon had two kids each. Together, along with Natasha, the couple raised five kids in Pennsylvania– Kim Hopper, Krystal McLeester, Eric Cloud, and Tiffany Cloud.
What is the ethnicity of Natasha Cloud’s parents?
“So, when you talk about who I am, those two amazing white people truly gave me the best life that I could have had. Then from there, they gave me every opportunity to figure out who I was,” Cloud says of her parents.
Natasha Cloud’s parents, Sharon and Emil Cloud share of Caucasian ethnicity. However, her biological father was of colour, with whom Sharon had an affair during a challenging phase in her married life. But the two got back together once they realised Sharon was pregnant. And since then, Emil has taken up dad-duties, from dropping her off to school, being there for her tryouts after school to walking her down the aisle, Emil has been the star guard’s father.
So, Natasha is identified as a bi-racial, with half Caucasian and half Afro-American roots, thanks to her biological parents. And though a relative provided her with the identity of her real father some years ago, Cloud pushed away the ordeal of finding him. “I had everything I needed. A father who loves me, who guided me through life—so there was no reason to go look for someone who didn’t want me,” she said.
Inside Natasha Cloud’s Relationship with her Parents
“I want my dad to be seen as the amazing man that raised a black woman to the best of their ability and gave me everything that I needed, everything that I needed to be successful,” Natasha had said. Though her parents came out about their relationship with Natasha on her 18th birthday, the fact that Emil was her stepfather did not affect or change the dynamic between the two. In fact, their ties have strengthened ever since.
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