NAPHEESA COLLIER BARELY slept the night before she wrote the statement that would rock the WNBA.
It was late in the evening on Friday, Sept. 26, only a few hours after the Minnesota Lynx dropped Game 3 of their semifinal series against the Phoenix Mercury. With 26 seconds left in the game and the Lynx down four, Collier had crashed to the floor after a collision with the Mercury's Alyssa Thomas.
An MRI revealed three Grade 2 torn ligaments and a torn muscle in her lower leg.