{"id":598638,"date":"2026-04-22T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:09:13","slug":"napheesa-colliers-ankle-rehab-will-likely-keep-her-out-of-the-wnba-seasons-first-month-lynx-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598638\/","title":{"rendered":"Napheesa Collier&#8217;s ankle rehab will likely keep her out of the WNBA season&#8217;s first month, Lynx say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier will likely miss the first month of the WNBA regular season to complete her rehabilitation following left ankle surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx announced the timeline update on Tuesday for Collier, who had the procedure done on March 24. The team said the five-time All-Star&#8217;s rehab was progressing as expected, with an anticipated return to on-court activity in early June. Collier was on crutches with a walking boot when she appeared at the team&#8217;s practice facility last week to discuss her new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota opens the regular season on May 10 against Atlanta and has eight games in May, with three on the schedule during the first week in June.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Collier averaged a career-high 22.9 points per game last season while shooting 53.1% from the floor, 40.3% from 3-point range and 90.6% from the foul line, becoming the first player in WNBA history to post 50\/40\/90 shooting splits while averaging 20-plus points per game. She finished second to A&#8217;ja Wilson in the league MVP voting in each of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Collier injured her left ankle in Game 3 of the 2025 WNBA semifinals against Phoenix, ending her season. The No. 1 seed Lynx lost the series to the Mercury in five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier will likely miss the first month of the WNBA regular season to complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1077,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-598638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-minnesota-lynx","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598638","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=598638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}