After three years, Natasha Mack is back in the WNBA. And she’s making a difference for the Phoenix Mercury.
The 6-foot-4 post player with a 6-foot-11 wingspan is averaging 1.9 blocks per game. Back in 2021 at Oklahoma State, she averaged four blocks a game, establishing herself as the best shot blocker in the country as she won Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors.
That production contributed to the Chicago Sky selecting her with the No. 16 pick in the 2021 WNBA Draft. She didn’t play much in Chicago, nor with the Minnesota Lynx, the franchise she briefly joined when she was cut by the Sky. After four games and just 18 total minutes, her WNBA dream seemed to be over.
Instead of giving up, Mack moved abroad, where she continued to play. As she told The Next earlier this season:
Honestly, I thought I was gonna be done with it. So I just went overseas, developed my game, played with different teams and just got better. And my agent got the phone call, like, ‘Hey, you wanna go to training camp for Phoenix?’ I said,…
