Lynx forward Napheesa Collier suffered a left foot injury in Thursday's loss to the Sun.
Michael Voepel covers the WNBA, women's college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.. She was hurt with 2 minutes, 36 seconds left in the third quarter and did not return to the game.
Cheryl Reeve, who is coach of both the Lynx and the U.S. women's national team, said in the postgame news conference that she didn't yet have an update on Collier or Lynx reserve guardCollier left with nine points, which ended her streak of 29 consecutive games scoring in double figures, dating back to last season. Another 5-on-5 U.S. Olympian,The Lynx have lost two games in a row for the first time this season; they fell 76-67 on Tuesday at New York.
"I still think, with Phee on the floor or not on the floor, we've got to be able to handle the basketball and be aggressive on the perimeter. When you play Connecticut, you have to be physically and mentally tough, and we were sporadic in those."
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