{"id":162343,"date":"2025-08-20T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162343\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:39:10","slug":"lynxs-napheesa-collier-questionable-to-play-thu-vs-dream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162343\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx&#8217;s Napheesa Collier questionable to play Thu. vs. Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d815e23c-aa3e-3490-d7be-f876d1e30e8a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-lynx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"3050c42f-4845-9e46-c003-1b0adb4c5e14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/3917450\/napheesa-collier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napheesa Collier<\/a> has been upgraded to questionable for Thursday&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bceea196-4263-d338-17a7-9ae40f3aed3f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-dream\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collier has missed the past five games as she recovers from an ankle sprain. The Lynx have gone 4-1 in her absence.<\/p>\n<p>Collier suffered the injury in Minnesota&#8217;s Aug. 2 matchup against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c97eb968-6e82-9785-a302-0bb1a1c1d064\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/lv\/las-vegas-aces\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> when she landed awkwardly on her right foot in the final seconds of the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46027123\/wnba-2025-minnesota-lynx-new-york-liberty-finals-rematch-playoffs-rivalry\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755733150_846_r1534159_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After getting an MRI, it was determined she avoided a major injury, sources told ESPN, and was diagnosed with a sprained ankle. Sources told ESPN that Collier would be reevaluated two weeks from then, which was Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Before her injury, Collier solidified herself as the MVP front-runner, leading the league in scoring with 23.5 points per game to go with 7.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.6 blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has 10 games remaining on its regular-season schedule, including Thursday&#8217;s game in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier has been upgraded to questionable for Thursday&#8217;s game against the Atlanta Dream. Collier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-162343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115063735205167883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}