Sometimes you have to sit down and mentally transform the clock to see how far you have come and what you have. Three years ago, Nephe Kolier covered the Wslam Vol. 2 with a “superman” cover. For only two weeks, Kolikos was placed with his newborn daughter, Mila, showing his power as a hoop and as a mother.
“I’m like a new mother, I’m just trying to find out life,” says Colien, thinking that day. “I feel more confident in my motherhood (now),” he said. “I’m going back to play, so it’s really good. Again among my teammates. I’m just feeling more justified in my life. That time was very good. “
Today, better known Coliere in these parts is better known as the Queen Fay, you can see a change. He is currently a bilateral Olympic gold medal, WNBA final, unparalleled, unattractive leader of his team and now Captain 2025. When we went to the press, Colikus averaged 24.5 PPG in the league for 8.4 RPG and League leading Lynx.
Three years jumped, but one thing remains the same. Colosis is still a superpower.
Slam. You were the first Western Conference of the Month this season. What has changed for you this year last year?
Nephea Kolier. You know, last year felt that it was a happy accident. Every year you try best, of course, but we have happened that the best team’s chemistry is wise, and we also happened to really good basketball players. And both of them have such things. It looks small but really rare when you love your teammates and you guys are good in basketball. So we kind of fell for that last year. And so now we know what it can be. I think just making sure we don’t lose that opportunity. This year, it feels like we want to use it and make the most of this year.
Slam. You played a coach under Cheryl, Reve your entire professional career. What is about coaching style that pushes you to grow?
NC: I think Cheryl really works hard to put people in successful places. He brings the best in you as a player and he knows where you fit well in the team and how to get it out of you. So he really taught me how to use the things you are really good and obviously work on things that are needed. He kind of forces you to look a little more technically to look at the game, and I think you make you a better player.
Slam. There are many large players in Lynch. Which veterans had the greatest influence on you?
NC: It’s so hard because we have two (Rebecca Brunson and Lindsay Walle) near the coaching headquarters. I mean, Mama Syl (Sylvia Fowles) is definitely one of my favorites. I was playing with him for four years. He is fair, like the best person you ever want to meet. So I have to say that he is definitely one of my favorites.
Slam. Can you give us a story when you have played together?
NC: SYL was the first man who greeted me when I reached Lynch, the first day of the training camp, which, how, he, like the world’s defensive player, is like a player of the glory, a defensive player. He is like, What is a child? If you ever need anything you come to me, And he just likes me hugging me a huge bear. I was on him. And that’s who he is. So it was great to have him because my veterinary comes to the League, and now he is in the text of me after each game. Do you know? Good work, or Good lukK, or whatever. He’s great.
Slam. You are in this career period where you are not yet a veterinarian …
NC: Thank you for saying that.
Slam. During the last few years you have seen that the league is growing, but you also have grown yourself as a player. How has that pass been?
NC: Yes, I think it is more responsible for youths for your team. I used to talk about how the silhole feels like a rookie, so inviting. And now my job is to do it for young people. Do you see what is responsible? This is my seventh season. I still feel young, but now I have to realize that it is my job to take care of young people. So having that pass was a little heavier a few years ago when it started.
Slam. Looking back, you can think for a moment in your career that once felt small, but it’s over to change everything.
NC: Drafted to Minnesota because you don’t control where you are drafted. And you always think, Wherever I go, you will make the best of itA number but I’m very lucky to have been drafted here and it has changed my whole career trajectory. So IT MIGHE HAVE SEEMED SMALL AT THE TIME-LIKE, Obviously Not Small In The Sense That’s So Exciting, But You Have No Control and You GO. You have to go there. But I’m so lucky to happen. And when I was drafted here, it’s definitely changed my life.
Slam. If we took all the titles and touches, how would you describe yourself in your nucleus?
NC: I feel the mother is a huge mother and a woman. I am focused so much. I am very proud of those regions. I am a family of family. In my nucleus I like to just decay, being around my family. I would rather be able to play games with my family than to be anywhere else.
Slam. What is like a perfect day?
NC: Perfect days for me. It depends on whether it’s a day off either a school day, or Mila, if it’s a school day, she’s a little time that is at rest. I’m probably going to give a boring sound, but mistakes have been made. For me, it’s fun now so I don’t know what to buy things for my house is great, just shows, like lazy stuffs are perfect day.
Slam. What motivates you now that she might not leave you sooner in your career?
NC: Definitely my family, my daughter. It just puts a lot of things to prospect. As I said before, basketball was never the most important thing in my life, but it really was the biggest thing in a long time. And so, now there are many more things that are much more important to me. And that really gives you reason, it makes you see it’s not that important. Like, we play the game at the end of the day, and playing the game is really important, but my family is always a number. So I’m a good day or a bad day at the end of the day, Mila, he’s like “Mama”. (and) runs in your hands. It just makes everything more. So my, of course, that definitely changed.
Slam. How do you manage the chaos of all that the season brings?
NC: I don’t feel like taking home with me. I have never been what was free with basketball. I really like to do other things in my life. And so for sure, I like to disguise. I have always loved sleep. Thus, the camouflage is the number one when I have time, but like beginner shows, as well as watching movies away from basketball, so I can give my cup.
Slam. Last summer you defeated the medal of your second Olympic God with the US team. It feels that the Olympic Games were exactly yesterday or really almost a year ago.
NC: Honestly, both of them. Because when I think about it, almost a year is crazy, so much has happened then (and now). It is also vivid to feel that it could be yesterday. But then I think that after that we went to the WNBA final, we launched unique. I have done all this all that. So it’s like that at the same time. It feels far away and is like that.
Slam. The women’s basketball landscape is constantly growing and developing. When you think of your Rookie season, you ever imagine that it’s reality.
NC: No, honestly. I mean is crazy, because the change usually happens so slowly, you really can’t follow it. Like, it happens little and little and suddenly look at where you are and different. This change happened so fast. You can follow the year after year how different it is. So it’s amazing to be part. I didn’t know if it would happen (during) in my career, so let’s see that it happens so fast, so nice to be part.
Slam. Growing your involvement has not passed unnoticed, unique in creating a new community. As a player, a trainer and League leader, how would you describe this time in women’s basketball?
NC: I think it’s like such an empowerment such a time, sincerely, as we keep the maximum cards you have ever held, the maximum strength we have ever spent as female athletes. Just the way people are watching women’s sports, access to us is more than what you have ever had, presence, the way you can see more than television. Liking, we still want to make a lot of changes in this area, but it’s better than ever, and that’s why you can see that reason. And so, yes, I just feel the time we can see the cards like hands to change almost, or the force that plays clearly. And it’s obvious that as a player, it’s really fun time to be part of women’s sports.
Slam. Building one brick for a building at once, you always stressed that the importance of being a place to be aeration of investing. Now see the business side, what are some of your classes?
NC: I think you see what happens when you invest in women’s sports when you pay the players accordingly when you have the opportunity to have a chance in the league. I think that’s unbelievable. Just the price you receive from the players, how well it’s got it by fans. You also get a little where the League side comes from. It is obvious that as players, we want to ask for maximum money. And you see the business side where you have x costs? What I think there are areas where we could have pushed some more.
Slam. If someone now says that “Nepe changed the league,” you hope.
NC: I hope to “change the league”, they definitely mean imperceptible. I hope that unparallelics flourishes, and that’s why it’s the envelope for women in all sports (and) we change what it means to pay and treat women’s athletes. So, I hope we are naked in that way, that’s the goal of what is unique.
There is still a lot I want to realize as a player. So I hope I will change the league in that way. I want to conquer the championship, I want to win different things, so I hope I leave it in those two areas.
Portraits by Matthew High Priest.
