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Lynx's Sylvia Fowles wins Defensive Player of the Year for 4th time

Sylvia Fowles of the Minnesota Lynx has done something that only one other WNBA player in history has ever done: win four Defensive Player of the Year awards.

The WNBA announced on Sunday that Fowles had won the 2021 Defensive Player of the Year award, making her just the second woman to win at least four Defensive Player of the Year award. The only other player? Tamika Catchings, who won it five times. Fowles also won the award in 2011, 2013, and 2016.

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In her 14th #WNBA season, @SylviaFowles is named the 2021 @KIA Defensive Player of the Year for the fourth time in her career.