Napheesa Collier absent for six months?
The year 2026 could not have started worse Napheesa Collier. Vice President of the WNBA Players Union, the Link’s MVP and co-founder of the peerless league, whose second season begins this Monday, Interior 29 years old discovered that she would have to operate on both ankle joints in the coming days!
The timing may be surprising, given that his ankle injury dates back more than three months, and occurred during Game 3 of the playoff semifinals facing Mercury. In August, she already suffered an ankle injury that cost her three weeks of absence and possibly the title of regular season MVP, which was finally won by A’ja Wilson.
WNBA goal
After trying to recover without going through the surgery box to play the second season of the Unrivaled League, Link’s interior was hopeful two weeks ago, assuring via a Zoom press conference that she is working hard to get back to 100% by early January.
After consulting with the medical teams in Miami and Minnesota, the Olympic champion undoubtedly had to face the facts afterwards, and will therefore undergo the same operation as Chris Middleton in the summer of 2024.
Napheesa Collier’s unavailability is estimated at between four and six months. Operated in July 2024, Chris Middleton had to wait almost five months, to finally return in mid-December 2024.
If Nafisa Collier were to stick to the same schedule, she would miss training and part of the start of the WNBA season, if it started on time, sometime in mid-May. As for her place on the Lunar Owls BC in an unrivaled league, Temi Fagbenle (Golden State Valkiries) was selected to replace her.
2026-01-02 15:25:00
