Napheesa Collier of the Lynx was named the WNBA Western Conference player of the month for July on Monday. <\/p>\n
But it doesn\u2019t look good for a repeat performance in August.<\/p>\n
Collier, the front-runner for WNBA MVP<\/a>, is expected to be sidelined for at least two weeks after spraining her right ankle<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s victory over the Aces in Las Vegas. She flew back to Minneapolis to be examined, with her teammates in Seattle preparing for Tuesday\u2019s game against the Storm.<\/p>\n The Lynx released a statement saying, in part, \u201cAfter undergoing an MRI, Collier was evaluated by team physician Dr. Elena Jelsing at Mayo Clinic Square, where a right ankle sprain was confirmed. Collier will be re-evaluated in the coming weeks and further updates on her progress will be provided when available.\u201d <\/p>\n The Lynx All-Star forward ranks in the WNBA\u2019s top five in points, steals, blocks and field goal percentage. She leads the league in scoring (23.5 points per game) and is ninth in rebounds (7.5). <\/p>\n In July, Collier was the MVP of the All-Star Game and averaged 23.1 points and 6.9 rebounds in 12 games, nine of them victories. <\/p>\n Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve, who posted her 350th career victory on July 16, was named the league\u2019s Coach of the Month for July. <\/p>\n The Lynx have a league-best 24-5 record with 15 games remaining. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Napheesa Collier of the Lynx was named the WNBA Western Conference player of the month for July on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-61090","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\/61090","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=61090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}