Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot harm in Thursday night time’s 78-73 loss to the Connecticut Solar. She was damage with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left within the third quarter and didn’t return to the sport.
Collier is having a standout season. She was named MVP of the Commissioner’s Cup closing, gained by the Lynx on June 25. Earlier in June, she was named to her second 5-on-5 Olympic workforce for the USA.
Cheryl Reeve, who’s coach of each the Lynx and the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, mentioned within the postgame information convention that she did not but have an replace on Collier or Lynx reserve guard Olivia Epoupa, who suffered a thigh harm through the recreation.
Collier left with 9 factors, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive video games scoring in double figures, relationship to final season. One other 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian, Alyssa Thomas, had a triple-double (13 factors, 14 assists, 10 rebounds) for the Solar (16-4).
The Lynx (14-6) have misplaced two video games in a row for the primary time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
“I instructed [the players] the final two video games, it is not that we’re taking part in dangerous, simply not effectively sufficient to win the sport,” Reeve mentioned. She added of Thursday’s loss, “Like all workforce shedding their MVP candidate, it is a little bit tougher, however that is typically what it’s. We attempt to give attention to what we do have. We went small, tried various things to see if we might discover a bonus.
“I nonetheless suppose, with Phee on the ground or not on the ground, we have got to have the ability to deal with the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. Whenever you play Connecticut, you must be bodily and mentally powerful, and we have been sporadic in these.”
Collier, the 2019 Rookie of the Yr because the No. 6 draft select of UConn, was on the 2020 Olympic workforce. She is in her fifth full season within the WNBA; she additionally performed 4 video games on the finish of the 2022 season after being out on maternity go away. Collier was on the all-WNBA first workforce final season and is averaging 20.0 factors, 10.2 rebounds and three.7 assists this yr.
The Lynx have 5 video games remaining earlier than the break for the July 20 WNBA All-Star Sport, the place Collier is scheduled play for Crew USA in opposition to Crew WNBA. That is adopted by the Paris Video games, which begin July 26.
Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot harm in Thursday night time’s 78-73 loss to the Connecticut Solar. She was damage with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left within the third quarter and didn’t return to the sport.
Collier is having a standout season. She was named MVP of the Commissioner’s Cup closing, gained by the Lynx on June 25. Earlier in June, she was named to her second 5-on-5 Olympic workforce for the USA.
Cheryl Reeve, who’s coach of each the Lynx and the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, mentioned within the postgame information convention that she did not but have an replace on Collier or Lynx reserve guard Olivia Epoupa, who suffered a thigh harm through the recreation.
Collier left with 9 factors, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive video games scoring in double figures, relationship to final season. One other 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian, Alyssa Thomas, had a triple-double (13 factors, 14 assists, 10 rebounds) for the Solar (16-4).
The Lynx (14-6) have misplaced two video games in a row for the primary time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
“I instructed [the players] the final two video games, it is not that we’re taking part in dangerous, simply not effectively sufficient to win the sport,” Reeve mentioned. She added of Thursday’s loss, “Like all workforce shedding their MVP candidate, it is a little bit tougher, however that is typically what it’s. We attempt to give attention to what we do have. We went small, tried various things to see if we might discover a bonus.
“I nonetheless suppose, with Phee on the ground or not on the ground, we have got to have the ability to deal with the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. Whenever you play Connecticut, you must be bodily and mentally powerful, and we have been sporadic in these.”
Collier, the 2019 Rookie of the Yr because the No. 6 draft select of UConn, was on the 2020 Olympic workforce. She is in her fifth full season within the WNBA; she additionally performed 4 video games on the finish of the 2022 season after being out on maternity go away. Collier was on the all-WNBA first workforce final season and is averaging 20.0 factors, 10.2 rebounds and three.7 assists this yr.
The Lynx have 5 video games remaining earlier than the break for the July 20 WNBA All-Star Sport, the place Collier is scheduled play for Crew USA in opposition to Crew WNBA. That is adopted by the Paris Video games, which begin July 26.
Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot harm in Thursday night time’s 78-73 loss to the Connecticut Solar. She was damage with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left within the third quarter and didn’t return to the sport.
Collier is having a standout season. She was named MVP of the Commissioner’s Cup closing, gained by the Lynx on June 25. Earlier in June, she was named to her second 5-on-5 Olympic workforce for the USA.
Cheryl Reeve, who’s coach of each the Lynx and the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, mentioned within the postgame information convention that she did not but have an replace on Collier or Lynx reserve guard Olivia Epoupa, who suffered a thigh harm through the recreation.
Collier left with 9 factors, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive video games scoring in double figures, relationship to final season. One other 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian, Alyssa Thomas, had a triple-double (13 factors, 14 assists, 10 rebounds) for the Solar (16-4).
The Lynx (14-6) have misplaced two video games in a row for the primary time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
“I instructed [the players] the final two video games, it is not that we’re taking part in dangerous, simply not effectively sufficient to win the sport,” Reeve mentioned. She added of Thursday’s loss, “Like all workforce shedding their MVP candidate, it is a little bit tougher, however that is typically what it’s. We attempt to give attention to what we do have. We went small, tried various things to see if we might discover a bonus.
“I nonetheless suppose, with Phee on the ground or not on the ground, we have got to have the ability to deal with the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. Whenever you play Connecticut, you must be bodily and mentally powerful, and we have been sporadic in these.”
Collier, the 2019 Rookie of the Yr because the No. 6 draft select of UConn, was on the 2020 Olympic workforce. She is in her fifth full season within the WNBA; she additionally performed 4 video games on the finish of the 2022 season after being out on maternity go away. Collier was on the all-WNBA first workforce final season and is averaging 20.0 factors, 10.2 rebounds and three.7 assists this yr.
The Lynx have 5 video games remaining earlier than the break for the July 20 WNBA All-Star Sport, the place Collier is scheduled play for Crew USA in opposition to Crew WNBA. That is adopted by the Paris Video games, which begin July 26.
Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot harm in Thursday night time’s 78-73 loss to the Connecticut Solar. She was damage with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left within the third quarter and didn’t return to the sport.
Collier is having a standout season. She was named MVP of the Commissioner’s Cup closing, gained by the Lynx on June 25. Earlier in June, she was named to her second 5-on-5 Olympic workforce for the USA.
Cheryl Reeve, who’s coach of each the Lynx and the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, mentioned within the postgame information convention that she did not but have an replace on Collier or Lynx reserve guard Olivia Epoupa, who suffered a thigh harm through the recreation.
Collier left with 9 factors, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive video games scoring in double figures, relationship to final season. One other 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian, Alyssa Thomas, had a triple-double (13 factors, 14 assists, 10 rebounds) for the Solar (16-4).
The Lynx (14-6) have misplaced two video games in a row for the primary time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
“I instructed [the players] the final two video games, it is not that we’re taking part in dangerous, simply not effectively sufficient to win the sport,” Reeve mentioned. She added of Thursday’s loss, “Like all workforce shedding their MVP candidate, it is a little bit tougher, however that is typically what it’s. We attempt to give attention to what we do have. We went small, tried various things to see if we might discover a bonus.
“I nonetheless suppose, with Phee on the ground or not on the ground, we have got to have the ability to deal with the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. Whenever you play Connecticut, you must be bodily and mentally powerful, and we have been sporadic in these.”
Collier, the 2019 Rookie of the Yr because the No. 6 draft select of UConn, was on the 2020 Olympic workforce. She is in her fifth full season within the WNBA; she additionally performed 4 video games on the finish of the 2022 season after being out on maternity go away. Collier was on the all-WNBA first workforce final season and is averaging 20.0 factors, 10.2 rebounds and three.7 assists this yr.
The Lynx have 5 video games remaining earlier than the break for the July 20 WNBA All-Star Sport, the place Collier is scheduled play for Crew USA in opposition to Crew WNBA. That is adopted by the Paris Video games, which begin July 26.
Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot harm in Thursday night time’s 78-73 loss to the Connecticut Solar. She was damage with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left within the third quarter and didn’t return to the sport.
Collier is having a standout season. She was named MVP of the Commissioner’s Cup closing, gained by the Lynx on June 25. Earlier in June, she was named to her second 5-on-5 Olympic workforce for the USA.
Cheryl Reeve, who’s coach of each the Lynx and the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, mentioned within the postgame information convention that she did not but have an replace on Collier or Lynx reserve guard Olivia Epoupa, who suffered a thigh harm through the recreation.
Collier left with 9 factors, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive video games scoring in double figures, relationship to final season. One other 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian, Alyssa Thomas, had a triple-double (13 factors, 14 assists, 10 rebounds) for the Solar (16-4).
The Lynx (14-6) have misplaced two video games in a row for the primary time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
“I instructed [the players] the final two video games, it is not that we’re taking part in dangerous, simply not effectively sufficient to win the sport,” Reeve mentioned. She added of Thursday’s loss, “Like all workforce shedding their MVP candidate, it is a little bit tougher, however that is typically what it’s. We attempt to give attention to what we do have. We went small, tried various things to see if we might discover a bonus.
“I nonetheless suppose, with Phee on the ground or not on the ground, we have got to have the ability to deal with the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. Whenever you play Connecticut, you must be bodily and mentally powerful, and we have been sporadic in these.”
Collier, the 2019 Rookie of the Yr because the No. 6 draft select of UConn, was on the 2020 Olympic workforce. She is in her fifth full season within the WNBA; she additionally performed 4 video games on the finish of the 2022 season after being out on maternity go away. Collier was on the all-WNBA first workforce final season and is averaging 20.0 factors, 10.2 rebounds and three.7 assists this yr.
The Lynx have 5 video games remaining earlier than the break for the July 20 WNBA All-Star Sport, the place Collier is scheduled play for Crew USA in opposition to Crew WNBA. That is adopted by the Paris Video games, which begin July 26.
Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot harm in Thursday night time’s 78-73 loss to the Connecticut Solar. She was damage with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left within the third quarter and didn’t return to the sport.
Collier is having a standout season. She was named MVP of the Commissioner’s Cup closing, gained by the Lynx on June 25. Earlier in June, she was named to her second 5-on-5 Olympic workforce for the USA.
Cheryl Reeve, who’s coach of each the Lynx and the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, mentioned within the postgame information convention that she did not but have an replace on Collier or Lynx reserve guard Olivia Epoupa, who suffered a thigh harm through the recreation.
Collier left with 9 factors, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive video games scoring in double figures, relationship to final season. One other 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian, Alyssa Thomas, had a triple-double (13 factors, 14 assists, 10 rebounds) for the Solar (16-4).
The Lynx (14-6) have misplaced two video games in a row for the primary time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
“I instructed [the players] the final two video games, it is not that we’re taking part in dangerous, simply not effectively sufficient to win the sport,” Reeve mentioned. She added of Thursday’s loss, “Like all workforce shedding their MVP candidate, it is a little bit tougher, however that is typically what it’s. We attempt to give attention to what we do have. We went small, tried various things to see if we might discover a bonus.
“I nonetheless suppose, with Phee on the ground or not on the ground, we have got to have the ability to deal with the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. Whenever you play Connecticut, you must be bodily and mentally powerful, and we have been sporadic in these.”
Collier, the 2019 Rookie of the Yr because the No. 6 draft select of UConn, was on the 2020 Olympic workforce. She is in her fifth full season within the WNBA; she additionally performed 4 video games on the finish of the 2022 season after being out on maternity go away. Collier was on the all-WNBA first workforce final season and is averaging 20.0 factors, 10.2 rebounds and three.7 assists this yr.
The Lynx have 5 video games remaining earlier than the break for the July 20 WNBA All-Star Sport, the place Collier is scheduled play for Crew USA in opposition to Crew WNBA. That is adopted by the Paris Video games, which begin July 26.
Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot harm in Thursday night time’s 78-73 loss to the Connecticut Solar. She was damage with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left within the third quarter and didn’t return to the sport.
Collier is having a standout season. She was named MVP of the Commissioner’s Cup closing, gained by the Lynx on June 25. Earlier in June, she was named to her second 5-on-5 Olympic workforce for the USA.
Cheryl Reeve, who’s coach of each the Lynx and the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, mentioned within the postgame information convention that she did not but have an replace on Collier or Lynx reserve guard Olivia Epoupa, who suffered a thigh harm through the recreation.
Collier left with 9 factors, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive video games scoring in double figures, relationship to final season. One other 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian, Alyssa Thomas, had a triple-double (13 factors, 14 assists, 10 rebounds) for the Solar (16-4).
The Lynx (14-6) have misplaced two video games in a row for the primary time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
“I instructed [the players] the final two video games, it is not that we’re taking part in dangerous, simply not effectively sufficient to win the sport,” Reeve mentioned. She added of Thursday’s loss, “Like all workforce shedding their MVP candidate, it is a little bit tougher, however that is typically what it’s. We attempt to give attention to what we do have. We went small, tried various things to see if we might discover a bonus.
“I nonetheless suppose, with Phee on the ground or not on the ground, we have got to have the ability to deal with the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. Whenever you play Connecticut, you must be bodily and mentally powerful, and we have been sporadic in these.”
Collier, the 2019 Rookie of the Yr because the No. 6 draft select of UConn, was on the 2020 Olympic workforce. She is in her fifth full season within the WNBA; she additionally performed 4 video games on the finish of the 2022 season after being out on maternity go away. Collier was on the all-WNBA first workforce final season and is averaging 20.0 factors, 10.2 rebounds and three.7 assists this yr.
The Lynx have 5 video games remaining earlier than the break for the July 20 WNBA All-Star Sport, the place Collier is scheduled play for Crew USA in opposition to Crew WNBA. That is adopted by the Paris Video games, which begin July 26.
Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot harm in Thursday night time’s 78-73 loss to the Connecticut Solar. She was damage with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left within the third quarter and didn’t return to the sport.
Collier is having a standout season. She was named MVP of the Commissioner’s Cup closing, gained by the Lynx on June 25. Earlier in June, she was named to her second 5-on-5 Olympic workforce for the USA.
Cheryl Reeve, who’s coach of each the Lynx and the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, mentioned within the postgame information convention that she did not but have an replace on Collier or Lynx reserve guard Olivia Epoupa, who suffered a thigh harm through the recreation.
Collier left with 9 factors, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive video games scoring in double figures, relationship to final season. One other 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian, Alyssa Thomas, had a triple-double (13 factors, 14 assists, 10 rebounds) for the Solar (16-4).
The Lynx (14-6) have misplaced two video games in a row for the primary time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
“I instructed [the players] the final two video games, it is not that we’re taking part in dangerous, simply not effectively sufficient to win the sport,” Reeve mentioned. She added of Thursday’s loss, “Like all workforce shedding their MVP candidate, it is a little bit tougher, however that is typically what it’s. We attempt to give attention to what we do have. We went small, tried various things to see if we might discover a bonus.
“I nonetheless suppose, with Phee on the ground or not on the ground, we have got to have the ability to deal with the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. Whenever you play Connecticut, you must be bodily and mentally powerful, and we have been sporadic in these.”
Collier, the 2019 Rookie of the Yr because the No. 6 draft select of UConn, was on the 2020 Olympic workforce. She is in her fifth full season within the WNBA; she additionally performed 4 video games on the finish of the 2022 season after being out on maternity go away. Collier was on the all-WNBA first workforce final season and is averaging 20.0 factors, 10.2 rebounds and three.7 assists this yr.
The Lynx have 5 video games remaining earlier than the break for the July 20 WNBA All-Star Sport, the place Collier is scheduled play for Crew USA in opposition to Crew WNBA. That is adopted by the Paris Video games, which begin July 26.