{"id":203314,"date":"2025-10-05T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/203314\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:25:11","slug":"wnba-fines-minnesota-coach-cheryl-reeve-a-record-15000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/203314\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA fines Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve a record $15,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve has been fined $15,000 by the WNBA for her comments and conduct<\/a> after her team\u2019s Game 3 semifinal loss<\/a> to the Phoenix Mercury, a person familiar with the penalty told The Associated Press on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made.<\/p>\n

The fine is believed to be the biggest for an individual coach or player in league history. The WNBA doesn\u2019t publicize the amount of fines.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White and Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon were fined $1,000 each for their public comments on WNBA officiating in which they defended Reeve. Hammon and White\u2019s teams face off on Tuesday night in a decisive Game 5 with a trip to the WNBA Finals on the line.<\/p>\n

The Athletic first reported the fines.<\/p>\n

Both coaches backed up Reeve\u2019s criticism and have been outspoken throughout the season on leaguewide officiating problems. White told reporters on Monday at Indiana\u2019s practice that she \u201cgot fined for supporting Cheryl, which I think is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that she made a lot of valid points,\u201d White said Sunday. \u201cA lot of the same kind of conversations are happening. It\u2019s happening from every team, from every franchise, from every coach, from every player. And I think at some point there has to be some accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hammon also defended Reeve.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I heard, she did not tell a lie,\u201d Hammon said before the Aces\u2019 Game 4 loss<\/a> to Indiana. \u201cShe said the truth. A lot of people thought it wasn\u2019t a foul, so let me give you an analogy. In the NFL, if you are a wide receiver, and you\u2019re going for a ball, and the ball is going this direction, you\u2019re going this direction, and then the defender is coming, you don\u2019t get to run through that wide receiver to get to the ball, even though the ball is loose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides the fine, the league suspended Reeve<\/a> for Game 4, which the Lynx lost and were eliminated<\/a> from the playoffs. This was the first time in the history of the WNBA that a coach had been suspended for a playoff game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer conduct and comments included aggressively pursuing and verbally abusing a game official on the court, failure to leave the court in a timely manner upon her ejection with 21.8 seconds to play in the fourth quarter, inappropriate comments made to fans when exiting the court, and remarks made in a post-game press conference,\u201d the league said in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n

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AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve has been fined $15,000 by the WNBA for her comments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[52746,5949,793,8262,2652,6429,1077,6661,1058,1060,99,4803,795,434,13017,13016],"class_list":["post-203314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-becky-hammon","tag-cheryl-reeve","tag-general-news","tag-in-state-wire","tag-indiana","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-nevada","tag-nv-state-wire","tag-sports","tag-stephanie-white","tag-u-s-news","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203314","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=203314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}