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Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve entered an animated altercation and was ejected during the defeat of the team 3 of the team against the Phoenix Mercury on Friday evening.
Reeve received his second technical fault in the last minute of the 84-76 lynx defeat. She was furious after the Mercury striker, Alyssa Thomas, crossed the body of Lynx Star Napheesa Collier for the flight, then dribbled the length of the field for the dismissal of the game.
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Lynx coach of Lynx du Minnesota, Cheryl Reeve, second on the right, shouts to managers while he is retained by the associate head coach Eric Thibault, the center and the Lynx goalkeeper Natisha Hiedeman, on the right, after being ejected after winning a second technical fault in the second half of the WNBA Basketball Phoenix. (AP photo / Ross D. Franklin)
The longtime head coach of the WNBA was smoking while necklace was on the ground in pain. Reeve fell in front of an official and the Lynx Courtney Williams goalkeeper and other assistants had to hold it back.
Instead of taking questions about the game, Reeve made a two -minute diatriber on the league officer. The incoherent WNBA officer had been the subject of the day for players and coaches throughout the season.
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Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve reacts to obtaining a technical fault by an official in the first half of a match 3 of a WNBA Basketball Series match against the Phoenix Mercury on Friday September 26, 2025 in Phoenix. (AP photo / Ross D. Franklin)
“If that’s what the League wants, OK, but I want to call a change in leadership at the League for Commission,” said Reeve, via ESPN. “The crew officiating that we had this evening, so that leadership considers these three people in the semi-finals, is worthy of a professional fault.”
Reeve declared that necklace “probably has a fracture of the legs”, although it or the team has developed on its status. She was turned upside down, necklace had no free throws in the match, five faults and finished it “with her offset”.
Phoenix took a 2-1 lead with the victory.
Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon was also upset by the way his series against Indiana fever was officiated. She said after match 2 that the physicity of the playoffs was “out of control”.
An injured Minnesota Lynx striker, Napheesa Collier, was helped off the field in the second half of match 3 of a WNBA basketball match in the semi-finals against the Phoenix Mercury on Friday September 26, 2025 in Phoenix. (AP photo / Ross D. Franklin)
“The physique is out of control for sure,” said Hammon. “You can bang yourself and enter a wide receiver in the NFL for these first five yards, but you can do it in the W for all half of the field. You put two hands on someone, it should be an automatic fault. Freedom of movement? There is no freedom. I don’t say that we do not do bad too. I don’t say that. I say that it is out of control.”
