WNBA deserves blame for All-Star's inevitable injury [View all]
Maybe now the WNBA will listen.
For years, players and coaches have been warning that the physicality of the game has gotten out of hand. That the officiating has not kept pace with the size, strength and pace of the WNBA game, and it’s taking a toll on both the players and the product. If the league didn’t step in, if it continued to settle for sub-par officiating, somebody was going to get hurt.
Well, now somebody has. And not just anybody. One of the biggest names in the game. In one of the biggest games of the season.
Napheesa Collier, runner-up for MVP each of the last two seasons, “probably has a fracture” after a collision with Alyssa Thomas late in the demolition derby, err, Game 3 between the Minnesota Lynx and the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night. A series that was already chippy went off the rails, with Collier leaving the floor limping and in tears, and coach Cheryl Reeve having to be held back by her assistants and guard Natisha Hiedeman before being ejected.
“If this is what our league wants, OK. But I want to call for a change of leadership at the league level when it comes to officiating,” Reeve said after the game, her fury palpable.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2025/09/27/napheesa-colliers-injury-was-inevitable-preventable-thats-on-wnba/86387525007/?tbref=hp
For real. The WNBA officials are worse than the ones we get in the Sun Belt, which is definitely second tier in D-I. Step it up, WNBA!!!
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