She plays for our team
Dallas Wings starter Natasha Howard just keeps getting better DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com In last week’s game against the Phoenix Mercury, Dallas Wings starter Natasha Howard scored a career-high 36 points and grabbed a game-best 11 rebounds.
Howard is in her second season with the Wings and her 10th in the WNBA. In the league’s off-season, she’s played for Fenerbahçe, a Turkish team in the EuroLeague Women, Turkey’s most successful professional team domestically and internationally.
In the 2023-24 season, they won all 35 of their games. Howard has worked hard to get where she is. She began playing basketball at the age of 10, noting that “My uncle saw something in me.
He put the ball in my hand.” He kept working with her, and, she said, “I started loving it slowly.” Because there wasn’t a girls’ team in her school in Toledo, Ohio, Howard ended up playing with the boys.
