NAPHEESA COLLIER BARELY slept the night before she wrote the statement that would rock the WNBA.

It was late in the evening on Friday, Sept. 26, only a few hours after the Minnesota Lynx dropped Game 3 of their semifinal series against the Phoenix Mercury . With 26 seconds left in the game and the Lynx down four, Collier had crashed to the floor after a collision with the Mercury's Alyssa Thomas .

An MRI revealed three Grade 2 torn ligaments and a torn muscle in her lower leg . Inside the Phoenician hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, with pain radiating across her leg, Collier sat to write a withering 4½-minute missive about the state of WNBA officiating and commissioner Cathy Engelbert's leadership and attitude toward players. She planned to deliver it whenever Minnesota's season c

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