{"id":21881,"date":"2025-08-04T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/collier-lynx-out-2-weeks-with-sprain-impact-on-the-wnba-and-mvp\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:02:44","slug":"collier-lynx-out-2-weeks-with-sprain-impact-on-the-wnba-and-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/collier-lynx-out-2-weeks-with-sprain-impact-on-the-wnba-and-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Collier (Lynx) Out 2 Weeks with Sprain: Impact on the WNBA and MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lynx&#8217;s Napheesa Collier Out With Ankle Sprain<\/h2>\n\n\nMinnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier will be out for at least two weeks due to a right ankle sprain, according to sources close to the team.\n\nCollier underwent imaging tests on Sunday and Monday, which revealed that she avoided a serious injury. The team announced in a statement that Collier suffered the sprain and will be reevaluated in the coming weeks.\n\nThe injury occurred with less than a minute left in the third quarter in the Lynx&#8217;s 111-58 victory over the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday. Collier fell unfortunately while trying to grab an offensive rebound.\n\nCollier remained on the ground for several minutes, visibly in pain, until she could leave the court with assistance. Her teammate, Kayla McBride, reported that Collier was in &#8220;good spirits&#8221;.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Obviously, you don&#8217;t want to see anyone fall, especially your MVP. We wish her the best. We want her to be healthy.<\/p><cite>Kayla McBride<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nCollier, who is the leading MVP candidate, averages 23.8 points and 7.7 rebounds, leading the league in both categories. The injury occurs while the Lynx maintain a 5.5-game lead over the Liberty in the standings.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynx&#8217;s Napheesa Collier Out With Ankle Sprain Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier will be out for at least two weeks due to a right ankle sprain, according to sources close to the team. Collier underwent imaging tests on Sunday and Monday, which revealed that she avoided a serious injury. The team announced in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2397,379,2418,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-21881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ankle-sprain","9":"tag-minnesota-lynx","10":"tag-napheesa-collier","11":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}