{"id":94758,"date":"2025-08-25T01:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94758\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:51:10","slug":"napheesa-collier-ankle-back-for-lynx-after-7-game-absence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94758\/","title":{"rendered":"Napheesa Collier (ankle) back for Lynx after 7-game absence"},"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> is back in the starting lineup against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bfef1bdd-c2d1-310d-dd9f-645b90575da9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> after missing the past seven games due to a right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46053576\/shepard-lifts-lynx-fastest-triple-double-wnba-history\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756086670_920_r1535471_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46029286\/wnba-playoffs-2025-real-not-10-teams-chances-fever-mystics-sparks\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756086670_457_r1534618_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Before her injury, Collier was the clear front-runner for MVP, averaging a league-high 23.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 1.8 steals (third in the league) and 1.6 blocks (fourth) per game. She has been out since Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx went 5-2 during that stretch, dropping the two games consecutively to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad8ccde6-59b3-fbe6-2faf-a835fa224ca1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-liberty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Liberty<\/a> and <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>. Minnesota still holds a 5.5-game lead over the Dream for first in the standings and is the only team so far to have clinched a spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier is back in the starting lineup against the Indiana Fever after missing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-94758","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\/94758","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=94758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}