Overview

• Minnesota ruled MVP runner-up Napheesa Collier out for Sunday with a left ankle/foot injury from the final seconds of Game 3, and the team has not announced a fracture despite Reeve suggesting the possibility.
• The WNBA suspended head coach Cheryl Reeve for one game for aggressively confronting an official, delaying her exit after ejection, comments to fans, and inflammatory postgame remarks; assistants Rebekkah Brunson and Eric Thibault were fined.
• Refereeing authorities defended the no-call on Alyssa Thomas’s late steal, stating she legally dislodged the ball before incidental contact that preceded the game-sealing layup.
• Phoenix leads the best-of-five semifinal 2–1, and Game 4 tips at 8 p.m. ET at PHX Arena with Thibault on the Lynx sideline and Collier unavailable.
• Minnesota, which went 5–2 during Collier’s earlier right-ankle absence, will lean on Kayla McBride, Courtney Williams and the bench to try to force a decisive Game 5.