WNBA gives Cheryl Reeve another award after playoff collapse and years of outspoken left-wing politics

The WNBA has another award for Cheryl Reeve.

This one comes from the people who run the teams, and that makes it worth examining what, exactly, they are celebrating.

The league announced Monday that the Minnesota Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations won Basketball Executive of the Year for the third time, tying the Atlanta Dream's Dan Padover for the most selections in the award's history.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after the top-seeded Lynx were swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the eighth-seeded New York Liberty, who were subsequently swept in the semifinals by the Dream .

Reeve appeared on 13 ballots, ahead of Padover's 11 and Golden State's Ohemaa Nyanin's eight.

Each of the WNBA's 15 teams had an executive on the voting panel, and voters couldn't select themselves.

CHERYL REEVE'S WNBA COACH OF THE YEAR WIN SHOULDN'T DISTRACT FROM HER DANGEROUS ACCUSATIONS That's a substantial endorsement of Reeve from her peers and it also amounts to tacit approval of the way one of the league's most outspoken left-wing figures represents her franchise.

An executive helps establish what an organization stands for, and Reeve has made her politics a major part of that job.

She consistently uses her WNBA platform to attack the motives of people who believe women's sports should be reserved for females.

Her colleagues have now chosen to celebrate her leadership.

That deserves scrutiny beyond a list of successful transactions.

The league's announcement highlighted Reeve's selection of Olivia Miles with the No.

2 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft.

Miles went on to become the unanimous Rookie of the Year and set the league's rookie scoring record with 790 points.