Aliyah Boston’s injury came at the worst possible time during the WNBA offseason. She had to miss the Unrivaled playoffs, which might have cost the Phantom a championship, and couldn’t go to Puerto Rico to play for Team USA. The injury was classified as a “lower extremity injury,” but fans never got more specific information. On March 5, Fever PR only revealed to IndyStar that Boston would undergo further evaluation in Indianapolis. Boston also didn’t go into any details on Wednesday’s episode of Post Moves.
“During the Rose game, it wasn’t like a specific play that happened,” Boston said. “It was just the feeling that I had. And honestly, I felt too like I was 15 steps behind everything that was going on. I literally just felt like I was moving so slow. I was battling obviously something in my lower leg, and I was like, ‘You know what? I’m not helping. Everything’s not really feeling great.’”
Fever head coach Stephanie White was just as vague in a recent interview with Chloe Peterson for IndyStar. “She put in a lot of work this offseason and it showed, so now it’s a little bit of a setback,” White said. “But I think from a mentality standpoint, she’s a positive person in general, and she’s going to attack this process in the way that she would anything else.”
Both comments still leave a lot of questions. What injury did Boston suffer? How bad is it? Will it impact the Fever’s 2026 season?
It’s difficult to tell how serious the injury is
Boston’s injury has to be at least kind of serious if it kept her from playing in the biggest part of the Unrivaled season and caused her to sit out an opportunity to suit up for the senior national team alongside Fever teammate Cailtin Clark.
At the same time, however, Boston didn’t wear a brace—or at least not one that was noticeable—when she was on the bench during the playoffs. Last week, she also posted a photo of herself in workout clothes at the Fever facility on her Instagram story that didn’t show a brace or noticeable tape.
There’s still time for Boston to recover for the Fever season
The Fever’s season isn’t scheduled to kick off until May 9 with a game against the Dallas Wings. Training camp is set to start on April 19. That timeline would still give Boston over a month to recover before the start of training camp and almost two months before the start of the season.
But she might also have a lot more time. There’s still no CBA. The March 10 deadline the league pinpointed as the last possible date that wouldn’t cause any delays to the season is well behind us. Union members and staff and league officials reportedly met in a 12-hour bargaining session, but there is still no new deal.