{"id":394558,"date":"2026-01-08T05:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394558\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:38:19","slug":"wnba-star-napheesa-collier-will-miss-4-6-months-and-the-unrivaled-season-to-undergo-double-ankle-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394558\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA star Napheesa Collier will miss 4-6 months and the Unrivaled season to undergo double ankle surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Lynx WNBA star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/napheesa-collier\" 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data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napheesa Collier<\/a> will undergo surgery on both of her ankles, forcing her to miss the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/3x3-basketball\/\" 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data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3&#215;3<\/a> Unrivaled season, it was revealed on Thursday (1 January) according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/47470089\/sources-napheesa-collier-miss-4-6-months-surgery\" 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data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s Kendra Andrews<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The timeline for her recovery is estimated between four to six months, which means she will potentially miss the start of the WNBA\u00a0season as well.<\/p>\n<p>In early August, Collier sprained her right ankle against the Las Vegas Aces, which left her sidelined for three weeks. Then, in September, Collier tore three ligaments in her left ankle during Game 3 of the\u00a0WNBA semi-finals against the Phoenix Mercury. The Lynx lost the series 3-1. Collier has been the engine behind the Lynx\u2019s recent success, leading the team to its best record in eight years (34-10) during the\u00a0last North American elite women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/basketball\/\" data-tracking-payload=\"{&quot;implementation_provider&quot;:&quot;sed&quot;,&quot;content_geography&quot;:&quot;AF,AX,AL,DZ,AS,AD,AO,AI,AQ,AG,AR,AM,AW,AU,AT,AZ,BS,BH,BD,BB,BY,BE,BZ,BJ,BM,BT,BO,BQ,BA,BW,BV,BR,IO,UM,VG,VI,BN,BG,BF,BI,KH,CM,CA,CV,KY,CF,TD,CL,CN,CX,CC,CO,KM,CG,CD,CK,CR,HR,CU,CW,CY,CZ,DK,DJ,DM,DO,EC,EG,SV,GQ,ER,EE,ET,FK,FO,FJ,FI,FR,GF,PF,TF,GA,GM,GE,DE,GH,GI,GR,GL,GD,GP,GU,GT,GG,GN,GW,GY,HT,HM,VA,HN,HK,HU,IS,IN,ID,CI,IR,IQ,IE,IM,IL,IT,JM,JP,JE,JO,KZ,KE,KI,KW,KG,LA,LV,LB,LS,LR,LY,LI,LT,LU,MO,MK,MG,MW,MY,MV,ML,MT,MH,MQ,MR,MU,YT,MX,FM,MD,MC,MN,ME,MS,MA,MZ,MM,NA,NR,NP,NL,NC,NZ,NI,NE,NG,NU,NF,KP,MP,NO,OM,PK,PW,PS,PA,PG,PY,PE,PH,PN,PL,PT,PR,QA,RE,RO,RU,RW,BL,SH,KN,LC,MF,PM,VC,WS,SM,ST,SA,SN,RS,SC,SL,SG,SX,SK,SI,SB,SO,ZA,GS,KR,SS,ES,LK,SD,SR,SJ,SZ,SE,CH,SY,TW,TJ,TZ,TH,TL,TG,TK,TO,TT,TN,TR,TM,TC,TV,UG,UA,AE,GB,US,UY,UZ,VU,VE,VN,WF,EH,YE,ZM,ZW,XK&quot;,&quot;content_id&quot;:&quot;fc4b5bfc-4425-400b-a553-097188572edf&quot;,&quot;content_release_date_local_utc&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01T19:13:08.509Z&quot;,&quot;content_title&quot;:&quot;WNBA star Napheesa Collier will miss 4-6 months and the Unrivaled season to undergo double ankle surgery&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-basketball\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-female\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;apple-news-us\\&quot;,\\&quot;north-america-editorial\\&quot;,\\&quot;caitlin-clark\\&quot;,\\&quot;breanna-stewart\\&quot;,\\&quot;sabrina-ionescu\\&quot;,\\&quot;napheesa-collier\\&quot;,\\&quot;a-ja-wilson\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;WNBA star Napheesa Collier will miss 4-6 months and the Unrivaled season to undergo double ankle surgery&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;wnba-star-napheesa-collier-will-miss-4-6-months-and-the-unrivaled-season-to-undergo-double-ankle-surgery&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-basketball&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;BKB&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">basketball<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx WNBA star Napheesa Collier will undergo surgery on both of her ankles, forcing her to miss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-394558","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\/394558","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=394558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}