In her rookie season, she was ranked seventh in the league in blocks per game and was named to the WNBA All-Rookie Team.

Midway through the 2017 season, McGee-Stafford was traded to the Atlanta Dream along with teammate Tamera Young in exchange for Jordan Hooper and a first-round draft pick.

Between November and December 2017, she played in China for Beijing Great Wall of the Women's Chinese Basketball Association.

In the spring of 2020, she announced that she is stepping away for the next two WNBA seasons to pursue a Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.

[10] In March 2023, McGee-Stafford was announced as a partner in MOORvision Technologies and Ucam, a camera built to capture athlete's point of view during games.