Napheesa Collier Talks the Injustice of the WNBA Finals and Launching Her Own Womens Basketball League [Video]

There’s plenty of opportunity for Unrivaled to mine during the ongoing women’s sports boom, of course, as proven by the league’s broadcast partnerships with TNT and Max. But Collier’s biggest motivation for launching Unrivaled is to simply allow WNBA players the chance to stay closer to home during the winters—as the mother of a two-year-old daughter, Mila, she’s hoping to eliminate the logistical nightmares that come with trying to raise a kid halfway around the world, or uprooting a child’s life to temporarily move them to a new country.

“The time changes, the different schools, the figuring out childcare, it’s a lot,” she explains. “That was definitely a huge thing for me. Being able to have my family is my number one priority in life.” Collier says Mila is still a bit too young to really take a liking to basketball just yet, but she’s starting to grasp that her mother plays …