Congratulations to the Minnesota Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve, the 2024 WNBA Coach of the Year and Basketball Executive of the Year.
In her 15th season in charge of the Lynx, she led the team to the most wins in franchise history, with a 30-10 record that was good for the second-best mark of the 2024 season. Minnesota thrived on both sides of the ball, sporting an egalitarian offensive that ranked fourth in the league and a lock-down defense that ranked second. The winners of the 2024 Commissioner’s Cup, the Lynx have advanced to the semifinals, extending their quest for the franchise’s WNBA-record fifth championship.
With her fourth Coach of the Year honor (2011, 2016, 2020, 2024), Reeve separates herself from three-time winners Van Chancellor (1997-99) and Mike Thibault (2006, 2008, 2013). She’s also only the second executive to win multiple Basketball Executive of the Year awards, having first won the award in 2019. Dan Padover, who is now with the Atlanta Dream, twice won the award as the lead executive of the Las Vegas Aces (2020-21). Reeve also matches Curt Miller as the only individual to win both the coach and executive honors in the same season; Miller did so with the Connecticut Sun in 2017.
In short, Reeve is nearly unparalleled as a basketball leader and strategist.
To be named Coach of the Year for a record fourth time, Reeve earned 62 of 67 votes from a national media panel, outpacing the New York Liberty’s Sandy Brondello, who finished second with four votes. The Indiana Fever’s Christie Sides received a single vote.
The Basketball Executive of the Year Award is voted on by the top executives from the league’s 12 teams, with each person submitting a ballot with first-place (five points), second-place (three points) and third-place (one point) selections. Executives are prohibited from voting for themselves. Reeve was named on 10 ballots, securing the award over the Seattle Storm’s Talisa Rhea, who was on eight ballots and finished second, and the Sun’s Darius Taylor, who was on seven ballots and finished third.
