Unrivaled’s second season is off to a rough start. Four days before the beginning of its second campaign, one of its biggest stars received terrible news. Napheesa Collier, the scoring champion in 2025 and one of the league’s co-founders, will miss the entire season.
Collier will undergo surgery on her ankles, which will take four to six months of recovery, meaning that she will miss the upcoming Unrivaled campaign.
Collier would return as a member of the Lunar Owls BC, the best team in 2025 (13-1). Aaliyah Edwards, Rebecca Allen, Skylar Diggins, Marina Mabrey and Rachel Banham are the other players on the team. DJ Sackman will be the head coach.
Napheesa Collier put on a show in her first Unrivaled season, averaging 25.7 points, 10.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 2.0 steals and 1.4 blocks per game in 18 outings. The team looked like the clear favorite to win the first-ever season of the 3-on-3 league until Vinyl stopped them in the semifinals.
Breaking: Napheesa Collier will undergo surgery on her ankles, sidelining her for four to six months and forcing her to miss the upcoming Unrivaled season, the league announced Thursday. pic.twitter.com/2WG2NY0SxP
— ESPN (@espn) January 1, 2026
Collier picked things up where she left off the following WNBA season. She averaged 22.9 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 3.2 apg, 1.6 spg and 1.5 bpg with the Minnesota Lynx. This will be a major loss for the competition, and it remains to be seen who will replace her on the Lunar Owls.
Unrivaled’s second season will tip off on Monday and will run until Wednesday, March 4. Collier’s Owls will debut against Rose on Monday.
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