The Minnesota Lynx collected multiple honors Sunday, as Napheesa Collier was named the WNBA Defensive Player of the Year and Cheryl Reeve, who led the U.S. women’s national team to a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, was named both the league’s Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year.
The awards highlight a great run for the Lynx, the No. 2 seed in the WNBA playoffs who host the Connecticut Sun on Sunday (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) in Game 1 of their semifinal matchup.
Collier, who finished second to Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson in the MVP race, received 36 votes from a national panel of 67 media members to win the award for the first time.
Wilson, the league’s DPOY the past two seasons, was second with 26 votes. The Seattle Storm‘s Ezi Magbegor was third with three votes, and the Sun’s DiJonai Carrington and Lynx’s Courtney Williams each got one vote.
Collier put together the greatest two-game stretch in WNBA playoffs history, scoring 80 points combined in a pair of wins over the Phoenix Mercury in the first round. The Lynx also led the WNBA by averaging 101.5 points through two games of the playoffs.
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