\u201cWe’re doing boho, of course. I want to get a little curl in there.\u201d<\/p>\n
It’s days before the start of WNBA All-Star Weekend<\/a> in Indianapolis, and Napheesa Collier is getting her hair braided on the other side of the Zoom screen\u2014while also speaking to Vogue and tending to her 3-year-old daughter, Mila, who is audibly requesting her attention. The impressive juggling act is par for the course for Collier, who in addition to being a wife, mother, and star forward on the Minnesota Lynx, is vice president of the WNBA Players Association and cofounder the Unrivaled<\/a> 3-on-3 women’s basketball league with her former UConn<\/a> teammate Breanna Stewart<\/a>. All-Star Weekend is another engagement on her busy schedule, though one she looks forward to.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s something that I still appreciate every year,\u201d says Collier, who has been selected for the All-Star game five times, and got word that she was named a 2025 captain while in the Lynx locker room. (Mila delivered the news via scooter, wearing shirt emblazoned with the phrase \u201cMama you’re a All-Star\u201d) \u201cIt’s always fun to be recognized in that way and especially with my teammates there,\u201d Collier continues. \u201cI definitely wouldn’t be here without them.\u201d<\/p>\n It was past and present teammates\u2014as well as UConn alums\u2014that Collier favored during the draft that saw her and fellow captain-slash-Indiana-Fever-star Caitlin Clark build their All-Star teams. Former UConn standouts Stewart and Paige Bueckers were selected for Team Collier, as were Collier’s Unrivaled teammates Skylar Diggins-Smith and Allisha Gray, and her Lynx teammate Courtney Williams. \u201cThat was really fun,\u201d says Collier.<\/p>\n Though winning was very much on the brain as Collier prepped to face Team Clark, with a whirl of events on her calendar, she gave ample thought to fashion, too. \u201cLast year was the first year that I started working with a stylist, and we were experimenting a lot\u2014trying different looks, trying to find what my style is,\u201d Collier says. \u201cThis year I feel like I’ve grown into it a little bit more. I really like elevating more classic looks and making those into my own. I like a little bit of an edgier look [and] I definitely like darker colors.\u201d<\/p>\n The custom and curated pieces Collier was packing for Indianapolis when we spoke are a far cry from what she brought to her first All-Star Weekend in 2019. \u201cI just went to Express the day before,\u201d she says. \u201cNow, of course, it’s so different. Fashion is so huge in the league; it’s really fun to see that part grow.\u201d Also fun? Watching the fandom of women’s basketball reach an all-time high. \u201cObviously Caitlin is a huge part of that, so having [WNBA All-Star Weekend] in Indiana, I think it’s going to be a huge turn out.”<\/p>\n She was correct.<\/p>\n Ahead, a behind-the-scenes look at Napheesa Collier’s 2025 WNBA All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe’re doing boho, of course. I want to get a little curl in there.\u201d It’s days before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-28704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28704","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=28704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}