Lynx's Reeve suspended after blasting officiating

Minnesota Lynx manager Cheryl Reeve has been suspended 1 crippled owed to her "conduct and comments" during and aft her team's nonaccomplishment to the Phoenix Mercury successful Game 3 of their playoff series, the WNBA announced Saturday.

Reeve volition service the suspension during Sunday's Game 4 successful Phoenix.

The Minnesota manager was ejected successful the closing seconds of the 4th fourth of Game 3 aft berating an authoritative for not calling a foul connected a play that near Lynx prima Napheesa Collier injured. Reeve had to beryllium restrained arsenic she ran onto the tribunal and earned her 2nd method of the game, starring to an ejection.

"If this is what the league wants, OK, but I privation to telephone for a alteration of enactment astatine the league level erstwhile it comes to officiating," Reeve said aft the Lynx fell down 2-1 successful the series. "The officiating unit that we had tonight, for the enactment to deem those 3 radical semifinal-playoff worthy, it's f---ing malpractice."

In a statement, the league outlined respective reasons for suspending the manager successful what volition beryllium a must-win crippled for her team.

"Her behaviour and comments included aggressively pursuing and verbally abusing a crippled authoritative connected the court, nonaccomplishment to permission the tribunal successful a timely mode upon her ejection with 21.8 seconds to play successful the 4th quarter, inappropriate comments made to fans exiting the court, and remarks made successful a post-game property conference," the connection read.

Assistant coaches Eric Thibault and Rebekkah Brunson were besides fined.