{"id":215568,"date":"2025-10-11T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215568\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:45:09","slug":"minnesota-lynx-forward-napheesa-collier-unanimous-choice-for-all-wnba-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215568\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier unanimous choice for All-WNBA team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Napheesa Collier, runner-up for the league\u2019s MVP award, was named to the All-WNBA first team on Friday. It\u2019s the third consecutive first team selection for the Lynx forward; only Maya Moore, who was on five first teams consecutively, has more in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">League MVP A\u2019ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces and Collier were unanimous choices for the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Collier missed seven games because of injury as the Lynx finished with the best regular-season record in the WNBA. She averaged a career-high 22.9 points and was the first player in league history to average more than 50% shooting from the floor, 40% on threes and 90% on free throws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The 29-year-old forward was the All-Star Game MVP as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Also on the All-WNBA first team were Phoenix forward Alyssa Thomas, Atlanta guard Allisha Gray and Indiana guard Kelsey Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The All-WNBA second team is Seattle forward Nneka Ogwumike, Vegas guard Jackie Young, Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu, Indiana center Aliyah Boston and Dallas guard Paige Bueckers, a former Hopkins standout who was the WNBA Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Earlier in the week, Collier and Lynx center Alanna Smith were chosen for the league\u2019s all-defensive team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Napheesa Collier, runner-up for the league\u2019s MVP award, was named to the All-WNBA first team on Friday. It\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-215568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}