India, Sept. 27 -- Minnesota Lynx, the No. 1 seed, lost to the Phoenix Mercury 84-76 to go down 2-1 in a best-of-five WNBA playoff semifinals series. To rub salt into Lynx's wound, star player Napheesa Collier suffered an injury on Friday.

According to USA Today, Collier went down with an apparent left ankle injury with 21.8 seconds remaining in the game. Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said Collier "probably has a fracture," putting her status for Game 4 in jeopardy.

"When you let the physicality happen, people get hurt, there's fights and this is the look that our league wants for some reason. One of the best players in the league shot zero free throws. Zero. And she had five fouls... She got her shoulder pulled out and finished the game with...