{"id":637644,"date":"2026-04-29T04:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:03:16","slug":"celtics-brad-stevens-named-nba-basketball-executive-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637644\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Brad Stevens named NBA Basketball Executive of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2182873\" class=\"wp-image-2182873 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/16x9_exec-4-1568x882.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"882\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2182873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Stevens is the NBA Executive of the Year, winning it again after getting his first trophy in in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.nba.com\/NBAapp_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the NBA App<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/awards\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025-26 NBA Awards: Complete coverage<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/history-sportsmanship-award-winners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA Sportsmanship Award: All-Time Winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens has been named the 2025-26 NBA Basketball Executive of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens earns the honor for the second time, having previously received it in 2023-24.\u00a0\u00a0He is the 12th executive to win the award multiple times since it was first presented in 1972-73.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens has been named the 2025-26 NBA Basketball Executive of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens earns the honor for the second time, having previously received it in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>He is the 12th executive to win the award multiple times. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dNcZhOk8tR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dNcZhOk8tR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2049171857455067248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stevens assembled a team that finished 56-26 in the 2025-26 regular season, the second-best record in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0\u00a0The Celtics secured a top-two seed in the NBA Playoffs presented by Google for the fifth straight season, matching Stevens\u2019 five seasons in his current role.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Boston\u2019s front office, Stevens served as the team\u2019s head coach for eight seasons.\u00a0\u00a0During his 13-year tenure with the franchise, the Celtics have made 12 playoff appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The voting panel for the 2025-26 NBA Basketball Executive of the Year Award consisted of basketball executives from NBA teams.\u00a0\u00a0The balloting was tabulated by the independent accounting firm Ernst &amp; Young LLP.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The voting panel for the 2025-26 NBA Basketball Executive of the Year Award consisted of basketball executives from NBA teams. <\/p>\n<p>Complete voting results \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPIrI0Uzvn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uPIrI0Uzvn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2049174154084028559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Stevens is the NBA Executive of the Year, winning it again after getting his first trophy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,308618,85],"class_list":["post-637644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-nba-executive-of-year-2025-26","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}