{"id":175114,"date":"2025-09-28T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175114\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:18:15","slug":"lynx-star-napheesa-collier-out-for-game-4-of-wnba-semifinal-series-vs-mercury-due-to-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175114\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx star Napheesa Collier out for Game 4 of WNBA semifinal series vs. Mercury due to ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier will miss Game 4 of the WNBA semifinal series against Phoenix on Sunday, two days after injuring her left ankle late in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lynx trail the best-of-five series 2-1. If they can win on Sunday, Game 5 would be Tuesday night in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collier injured her ankle late in the fourth quarter Friday when she got tangled up with Alyssa Thomas, who stole the ball from her near the 3-point line. No foul was called on the play. The Mercury won the game 84-76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The runner-up for MVP hurt her ankle on the play and had to be helped to the locker room. Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said after the game that Collier \u201cprobably has a fracture,\u201d though she didn\u2019t elaborate on the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reeve also won\u2019t be with the team Sunday as s he was suspended for the game by the league for behavior and comments after that play and in the team\u2019s postgame press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier will miss Game 4 of the WNBA semifinal series against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-175114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}