{"id":184620,"date":"2025-09-27T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/184620\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:19:07","slug":"lynx-cheryl-reeve-officials-in-game-3-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/184620\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx Cheryl Reeve officials in Game 3 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">PHOENIX &#8211; Late in the Lynx\u2019s 84-76 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lynx-mercury-game3-wnba-semifinals-collier-thomas-reeve-phoenix\/601478649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lynx-mercury-game3-wnba-semifinals-collier-thomas-reeve-phoenix\/601478649\">Game 3 loss to the Phoenix Mercury<\/a> on Friday night, Minnesota head coach Cheryl Reeve was ejected after her second technical foul, angry because of Phoenix\u2019s physical defense on Lynx star Napheesa Collier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">She picked up her second technical with 21.8 seconds left in the game, the Lynx already trailing as Phoenix star Alyssa Thomas knocked Collier over near half-court for a steal and layup. Collier exited the game with a seeming left-ankle injury after missing seven games earlier this season with a right ankle injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Reeve was issued her first with five minutes remaining in the second quarter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cOne of the best players in the league shouldn\u2019t have zero free throws, and she had five fouls &#8230; had her shoulder pulled out and finished the game with her leg being taken out and probably has a fracture,\u201d Reeve said postgame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Reeve also questioned the officiating leadership at the league level. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cAnd so this is what our league wants, OK, but I want to call for a change of leadership at the league level when it comes to officiating&#8230; The officiating crew that we have tonight, for the leadership to deem those three people semifinals playoff worthy is malpractice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; Late in the Lynx\u2019s 84-76 Game 3 loss to the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night, Minnesota&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-184620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}