Overview

• Minnesota ruled MVP runner-up Napheesa Collier out for Game 4 with a left ankle/foot injury from the closing seconds of Game 3, with no official fracture diagnosis from the team.
• The WNBA suspended head coach Cheryl Reeve for one game for her conduct during and after Game 3; associate head coach Eric Thibault will lead the Lynx in Phoenix.
• Phoenix leads the best-of-five semifinals 2-1, making Sunday’s Game 4 at PHX Arena (8 p.m. ET, ESPN) an elimination game for the top-seeded Lynx.
• The National Basketball Referees Association and NBA Referees publicly defended the no-call on Alyssa Thomas’s late steal, saying, “This is NOT a foul,” intensifying scrutiny of foul-calling standards.
• The WNBA assigned Roy Gulbeyan, Fatou Cissoko-Stephens and Amy Bonner to officiate Game 4, while the Game 3 crew will work Fever–Aces Game 4.