If you are a true fan of the WNBA who watches games and legitimately enjoys women’s basketball, it’s easy to see the two biggest narratives through one-fourth of the 2025 season come straight out of Minnesota.
One is that Napheesa Collier is morphing into the best player in the world and is proving it, courtesy of averaging 26.1 points per game and 8.8 rebounds per game. Collier has scored 20 or more points in 8 of the first 10 games she’s played and leads the WNBA in scoring by nearly six points per game. The second and biggest narrative is that the Lynx are clearly on a mission to win the franchise’s fifth WNBA championship after coming a controversial call away from winning a title last season.
Despite being the front-runner to win her first MVP award this season, Collier’s singular focus this season is to lead the Lynx to a world championship, not win a MVP award.
“The goal every year is to win a title, and I feel we really good we have the group this year to go do it,” Collier said. “We simply need to make sure we take care of ourselves every game and do what we can.”
