On August 1, in a response to a question from the media after practice, Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve gave a nuanced, erudite, educated—and therefore highly controversial—take on the hot-button topic of trans athletes in sports. There is not anyone who walks into the gym that doesn’t know this is still Phee’s team,” Reeve said on July 11, specifically name-checking the holdover starters. The night Reeve extolled Miles to the high heavens is the game in which the Lynx defense broke down to cause a rare defeat. Asked what Phee’s presence means to the Lynx defense, The Spectacle gushed, “Effort, IQ, consistency, knowledge of the game, experience; I mean, I could go on and on. A lot of the eventual result will rely on how well Cheryl Reeve engages—and gets her team to engage—the obstacles ahead.