Courtesy of Jade Hewitt/Athletes Unlimited
When Natasha Cloud reached the WNBA finals with the Mystics in October 2019—the pinnacle of her basketball career—the most important person in the point guard’s life was on the other side of the world.
Cloud’s fiance, Aleshia Ocasio, was pursuing her own profession by playing softball in Japan. The two had not seen each other in more than a month when, on a whim, Ocasio jumped on a 15-hour flight from Tokyo to Washington to catch Game 1 of the finals.
