{"id":191892,"date":"2025-09-30T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:59:18","slug":"wnba-fines-stephanie-white-becky-hammon-for-comments-about-officials-after-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191892\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Fines Stephanie White, Becky Hammon for Comments About Officials After Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ftj7w049j\">After Game 4 of the WNBA semifinals series between the Fever and the Aces, both coaches made critical comments about the officiating in this year&#8217;s playoffs. And now, they&#8217;ve both been fined $1,000 each by the WNBA, <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6674695\/2025\/09\/29\/lynx-cheryl-reeve-fine-suspension-stephanie-white-becky-hammon-wnba-playoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_yt8rhth55\">Both Stephanie White and Becky Hammon were asked about Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve&#8217;s intense comments directed at officials during Minnesota&#8217;s semifinals series that led her to <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/lynx-coach-cheryl-reeve-suspended-game-3-outburst-mercury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being suspended for one game<\/a>. Reeve later called the officiating &#8220;malpractice.&#8221; It seems that both White and Hammon agreed with Reeve when asked their opinions on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_hud7czwkx\">&#8220;I think that she made a lot of valid points. &#8230; I think at some point there has to be some accountability,&#8221; White said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_rd559qxcl\">&#8220;From what I heard, she did not tell a lie. She said the truth,&#8221; Hammon said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stephanie White &amp; Becky Hammon were asked about Cheryl Reeve&#8217;s comments from Friday night:<\/p>\n<p>White: &#8220;I think that she made a lot of valid points&#8230; I think at some point there has to be some accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hammon: &#8220;From what I heard, she did not tell a lie. She said the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexa Philippou (@alexaphilippou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexaphilippou\/status\/1972374282681684029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0y70dz1ar\">Both coaches were fined by the league on Monday due to the comments made above in support of Reeve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_vm2ul9zif\">Officiating has definitely been the biggest storyline out of this year&#8217;s WNBA playoffs so far. The Fever and Aces will play in Game 5 on Tuesday night, with the winner sealing a spot in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Game 4 of the WNBA semifinals series between the Fever and the Aces, both coaches made critical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-191892","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\/191892","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=191892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}