Overview

• Minnesota head coach Cheryl Reeve was suspended one game for aggressively confronting an official, delaying her exit after ejection, and making inflammatory postgame remarks, while assistants Rebekkah Brunson and Eric Thibault were fined.
• Napheesa Collier was ruled out of Game 4 with a left ankle/foot injury suffered in the final seconds of Game 3, with no official diagnosis beyond the injury despite Reeve suggesting it might be a fracture.
• Phoenix leads the best-of-five semifinal series 2–1, and Game 4 in Phoenix (8 p.m. ET, ESPN) is a must-win for the top-seeded Lynx to force a decisive Game 5 in Minneapolis.
• The National Basketball Referees Association publicly defended the late no-call on Alyssa Thomas’s poke-away from Collier as legal, and the WNBA assigned a new crew for Game 4: Roy Gulbeyan (crew chief), Fatou Cissoko-Stephens, and Amy Bonner.
• Associate head coach Eric Thibault will serve as acting head coach for Minnesota, which will lean on Kayla McBride, Courtney Williams, and its rotation to extend the series.