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Good morning, Winners! Happy Wednesday! I hope you’re having a great week so far.
Napheesa Collier and the Minnesota Lynx certainly are. They’ve officially reached the pinnacle of the sport. Minnesota has officially punched a ticket back to the WNBA Finals with a dominant win over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday.
This team looked a lot different the last time around in 2017. Maya Moore’s Lynx played Candace Parker’s LA Sparks, and Sylvia Fowles dominated both ends of the floor to win Finals MVP in the series.
None of those names are around anymore. The torch has officially been passed down in Minnesota and Napheesa Collier is its new bearer.
Collier, the WNBA’s defensive player of the year, has always been a name that frequently comes up in the WNBA discourse when talking about the league’s best players. She’s always been the player who gets mentioned last in those conversations about the league’s elite. You know how it goes: “Don’t forget about Napheesa Collier” or something along those lines, right?