{"id":305967,"date":"2025-10-15T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305967\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:01:11","slug":"ref-criticized-by-cheryl-reeve-onto-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305967\/","title":{"rendered":"Ref criticized by Cheryl Reeve onto NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lynx coach <a href=\"https:\/\/lynx.wnba.com\/basketball-operations\/cheryl-reeve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheryl Reeve<\/a> was highly critical of the officiating staff in Minnesota\u2019s Game 3 loss to Phoenix in the WNBA semifinals last month.<\/p>\n<p>One of those referees was <a href=\"https:\/\/official.nba.com\/nba-names-three-referees-to-2025-26-officiating-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named an NBA staff official<\/a> for the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Reneau, <a href=\"https:\/\/official.nba.com\/referee-assignments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who was listed as the third official<\/a> from the Lynx game Reeve was ejected from after storming onto the court following a late no-call that left Napheesa Collier injured, was one of three new hires the NBA announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Per the NBA\u2019s release, Reneau has worked 30 NBA regular season games as a non-staff official over the course of the last four seasons. She\u2019s officiated nine years in the G-League, working each of the last three G-League Finals, has worked each of the last four WNBA postseasons and referred men\u2019s and women\u2019s games in the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Game 3 defeat, Reeve went to the postgame podium and lamented the lack of calls for Collier and what, in her mind, was excessive physicality. She also called for \u201ca change of leadership at the league level when it comes to officiating. It\u2019s bad for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officiating crew that we had tonight, for the leadership to deem those three people semifinals playoff worthy is (expletive) malpractice,\u201d Reeve added.<\/p>\n<p>Reneau called that game alongside officials Isaac Barnett and Randy Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>Reeve was subsequently suspended for Game 4 of the series \u2014 in which the Lynx were eliminated \u2014 for her comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to welcome Biniam, Pat and Jenna to our NBA officiating staff,\u201d NBA Executive Vice President, head of referee operations Albert Sanders said in the release. \u201cEach official has consistently demonstrated the growth, professionalism, and performance quality to officiate NBA games on a regular basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve was highly critical of the officiating staff in Minnesota\u2019s Game 3 loss to Phoenix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1519,1260,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-305967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-minnesota-lynx","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115379495710066036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}