On Sunday night in Phoenix, as the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx's hopes for a WNBA championship came to an end in Game 4 of their semifinal series against the Phoenix Mercury, Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve was nowhere to be found.
That's because the day prior, the WNBA handed Reeve a one-game suspension due to her "comments and conduct" in the waning seconds and aftermath of the Lynx's Game 3 loss to the Mercury, including "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 postgame press conference."
Reeve's outburst began when Lynx star Napheesa Collier was injured as Merc