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Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, got into a heated altercation and was expelled during the defeat of game 3 of the team against Phoenix Mercury on Friday night.
Reeve received his second technical fault at the last minute of Lynx’s 84-76 defeat. He was furious after Mercury’s striker Alyssa Thomas crossed Lynx Star Napheesa Collier for the robbery and then dribbled the length of the court for the game sealing tray.
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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)
The former WNBA chief coach was furious when Collier was on the floor with pain. Reeve got into the face of an officer and Lynx Courtney Williams and other attendees had to stop her.
Instead of taking questions about the game, Reeve went to a two -minute diatribe about the league trade. The inconsistent breach of the WNBA had been the Du Jour theme for players and coaches throughout the season.
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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)
“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 officiating,” Reeve said, through ESPN. “The officiating crew we had tonight, so that leadership considers those three dignified semifinal people, it is a negligence.”
Reeve said Collier “probably has a fracture in the leg”, although she neither the team elaborated her condition. It was annoying that Collier had no free shots in the game, five fouls and finished “with his leg taken.”
Phoenix took an advantage of the 2-1 series with the victory.
The Las Vegas Aces coach, Becky Hammon, was also upset with the way her series was being officiated against Indiana’s fever. She said after game 2 that the physicality of the playoffs was “out of control.”
An eaves of Minnesota Lynx Lynx Lesphesa Collier receives help outside the court during the second half of the 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)
“The physicality is out of control,” said Hammon. “You can hit and grab an open receiver in the NFL for those first five yards, but you can do it in the W for the half -whole court. Puses two hands to someone, should it be an automatic fault. Is freedom of movement no freedom. I am not saying that we are not rehearsing too. I do not say that. I am saying that it is out of control.”
