Napheesa Collier talks Unrivaled and WNBA’s future on this week’s ‘The Athletic Show’

Napheesa Collier was well-known to WNBA fans before last season, but her exit interview following the 2025 campaign made headlines across the sports world. Her pointed criticism of league leadership and player compensation brought wide-ranging attention to the labor battle gripping the WBNA, as well as to Collier’s proposed solution: establishing an alternative league to address the problem. In 2023, she and fellow women’s hoops star Breanna Stewart founded Unrivaled, a 3-on-3 league featuring t