Last season, Minnesota Lynx two-time All-Star forward Napheesa Collier made her triumphant return to the lineup on August 7, just 10.5 weeks after giving birth to her daughter Mila on May 25.
Collier rejoined the team in early July after nearly 10 months away from the Lynx, the longest she had gone without playing basketball since she started playing. That time away wasn’t easy.
“I was watching every game. You have a serious sense of FOMO (fear of missing out) like, ‘I wish I was there’ kind of thing,” she explained to Canis Hoopus in Downtown Minneapolis last week.