Napheesa Collier signs super max contract with Minnesota Lynx, per report
Napheesa Collier signed a one-year, $1.4 million super max contract with the Lynx to remain in Minnesota.
Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier is returning to the Minnesota Lynx. On Thursday, April 16, ESPN reported that the five-time WNBA All-Star signed a one-year, $1. 4 million super max contract with the Lynx to remain in Minnesota, where she's spent the first seven years of her career.
Collier finished second in the MVP voting last season after becoming the second player in WNBA history to record a 50-40-90 year, finishing the regular season with a 50% field goal percentage, 40% 3-point field goal percentage and 90% free throw percentage. Elena Delle Donne is the only other WNBA player to achieve the feat. Collier set career-highs in points (22.
9) and blocks (1. 5) en route to leading Minnesota to a franchise-best 34-10 record. She was named to the All-WNBA and first-team All-Defensive last season.
However, Collier's record-breaking season was cut short after she suffered a Grade 2 tear of three ankle ligaments and her shin muscle during a collision with Alyssa Thomas in Game 3 of the WNBA semifinals. Collier underwent offseason surgery on both of ankles in January, forcing her to miss the second season of Unrivaled, a 3x3 basketball league she founded with Breanna Stewart. "I am heartbroken to share that I will miss this Unrivaled season," Collier wrote in an Instagram post in January.