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On Saturday, the WNBA issued its punishment for Minnesota Lynx coach, Cheryl Reeve, after his actions during and after the defeat for Friday’s playoffs against Phoenix Mercury.
Reeve was suspended by game 4 of the semifinal series and was ordered to pay a fine.
At the end of the fourth trimester of game 3, Reeve was aggressively seen chasing a referee. Then, he seemed to participate in a verbal altercation with the game officer. The Lynx was eliminated from the dispute after a defeat 86-81 on Sunday.
On Tuesday, athletics reported that Reeve received a fine of $ 15,000.
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Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, reacts during the second half of the game five of the 2024 WNBA playoffs against the Connecticut Sun in Target Center. (Matt Krohn-Imagn images)
The figure would be one of the largest fines that WNBA has issued an individual. In 2021, Diana Tauurasi received a fine of $ 2,500 for making illegal contact with a referee during a game in the WNBA finals of that year.
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After his expulsion last week, Reeve refused to leave the Court within a reasonable time. There were just over 21 seconds in the last quarter at the time Reeve was thrown.
Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, reacts to receive a technical foul from an officer during the first half of game 3 of a game of the WNBA basketball semifinal series against the PHoenix Mercury on Friday, September 26, 2025 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Reeve also seemed to direct the comments towards fans when he left the court. He then pointed to the WNBA state officiating at the press conference after Friday’s game.
“If this is what the League wants, it is fine, but I want to ask for a leadership change at the League level when it comes to officiar,” Reeve said. “The officiating crew we had tonight, so that leadership considers those three dignified semifinal people, it is a negligence.”
Isaac Barnett, Randy Richardson and Jenna Reneau were the three officials on Friday night.
The play that Drew Reeve is Alyssa Thomas stealing the Napheesa Collier ball near the 3 -point line and leading to the other end for the game sealing tray.
Collier injured his leg in the play and had to be helped to the costumes. Reeve said Collier “probably has a fracture,” although he did not explain the injury.
Although Collier crashed into the court after the collision, the National Basketball Referees Association recorded a climax of the work on social networks explaining why the officials were right not to blow the whistle.
Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, second from the right, shouts the officials when he is restricted by the associate coach of Lynx, Eric Thibault, Center, and Lynx’s guard Natisha Ildanman, to the right, after being expelled after winning a second technical foul during the second half of the game 3 of a game of a game of basketball WNBA against the Phoenix game of Mercury, on Friday of Mercury, September, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 202, 2025, Septer. Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
“This is not a fault” He said the publication. “Thomas legally reaches the ball and falls the ball before any contact. The leg contact to the leg is incidental once the ball is clearly loose.”
Minnesota Eric Thibault and Rebekkah Brunson coaches were also fined by the League. Thibault was fined for his inappropriate interaction with an official in the court. Brunson was fined by an inappropriate comment of social networks aimed at WNBA officials.
According to Atlético, Tibault and Brunson received fines of $ 500.
The outlet also reported that the League issued fines of $ 1,000 to Los Vegas coach, Becky Hammon, and the Indiana fever coach Stephanie White, respectively. The discipline followed Reeve coaches and their vocal criticisms of officials.
“From what I heard, she didn’t say a lie. She told the truth,” Hammon said before the Lynx-Mercury semifinal game on Sunday. “I think something has to change.
“When the players are in vulnerable positions, such as jumping or running at full speed, I think you have to protect them. You have to protect your product. If that were LeBron James, or that outside Shai Gilgeous-Alexander or someone like that, they would protect some of those players.”
Meanwhile, White said Reeve “made many valid points” and said that “at some point, there must be some responsibility.”
The WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, went to officiate during the weekend All-Star in July.
“As we advance in arbitration, we listen to concerns. We take the contribution of employees,” said Engelbert. “Each play is reviewed. We spend hours and hours and hours. Obviously, we use it to continue with the training of officials.
“The consistency is important. I think some people observe our game versus other basketball formats (and think) are not called a lot of offenses, but I realize that the consistency is the name of the game.”
