Celtics’ Brad Stevens named Executive of the Year for second time

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Brett Siegel, ClutchPoints

Tue, Apr 28, 2026 ·

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Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens has been named the 2025-26 NBA Executive of the Year , the league announced on Tuesday afternoon.

This marks the second time Stevens has won this award, as he did so during the 2023-24 season, the year that Boston went on to win their 18th championship in team history.

Stevens is just the 12th executive to win the award multiple times, and he is the first to do so twice in a three-year span since Golden State Warriors ’ executive Bob Myers won the award in 2015 and 2017.

With Jayson Tatum sidelined for the vast majority of the season while he rehabbed his Achilles injury suffered in the 2025 NBA Playoffs, Stevens reassembled the Celtics’ roster to remain competitive in the Eastern Conference.

Trading both Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday , Stevens built this roster around All-Star Jaylen Brown and trusted in head coach Joe Mazzulla to work new pieces like Neemias Queta and Anfernee Simons (during the first half of the season) into the fold.

At the trade deadline, Stevens was brilliant in trading Simons for Nikola Vucevic , as well as moving minimum contracts and cash received from prior trades to move the Celtics roughly $10,000 below the luxury tax line for the season.

After starting last offseason projected to be a second-apron team, Stevens and his front office worked diligently to keep the organization in a position to contend for a championship without their best player and also move below all of the tax lines for the 2025-26 season.

The Celtics went 56-26 during the regular season, finishing with the second-best record in the conference and the fourth-best in the NBA this year.

The voting panel for the 2025-26 NBA Basketball Executive of the Year Award consisted of basketball executives from each NBA team.

Stevens received 11 first-place votes and finished with 69 voting points, ahead of Atlanta Hawks executive Onsi Saleh with 41 voting points. Detroit Pistons executive Trajan Langdon, who received the second-most first-place votes (6) finished third in the voting with 40 points.

Charlotte Hornets ’ Jeff Peterson (37) and Oklahoma City Thunder ’s Sam Presti (25) rounded out the top five in the voting for the NBA Executive of the Year award.