NBA Exec of the Year - Pritchard gets ZERO votes

[hasoos]

Dumars gets a free pass until the beginning of the next season, to see what he does with the cap space. If he does nothing with it, then I'll agree with you.

Oh he gets a free pass just because he made that team so successful, for so long. But just remember. This is executive of the year. The new year started when the award was handed out this year. So the cap space thing, that will be in next years contest. Not this year!

 

[Freshtown]

You have to remember that other GM's don't like Pritchard. I forget where I read it (ESPN?), but some 'anonymous' GM claimed that almost every other GM doesn't really like Pritchard because they feel he acts too smug, claiming he burns 3 cell-phone batteries a day, etc etc. So that probably had something to do with it.

 

[barfo]

Isn't his boss Paul Allen, the owner?

Technically, no. KP, the GM, reports to Larry Miller, the President. Larry Miller reports, I think, to someone at Vulcan.

barfo

 

[PapaG]

Pritchard sent out that nasty email or message...lost all respect with that

The team president sent that email, not Pritchard.

 

[La Bomba]

No Chris Wallace? WTF????

 

[oldmangrouch]

No Chris Wallace? WTF????

By signing Miles and screwing the Blazers, Wallace helped every potential contender for the next 5 years or so. Sadly, his OWN team is one of the few who will never be in a postion to benefit!

 

[esperanzafleet6969]

unbelievable that joe dumars didnt recieve a single vote... he traded away chauncy and now has a 72 million dollar contract and a 56 million dollar contract comin off the books... although his team suffered.... i guess u shouldnt really hand out this award till the next season...

 

[mook]

i guess u shouldnt really hand out this award till the next season...

It sounds clunkier, but they really should call it "Executive of the Last Three Years." Some teams are in such a bad state that it's pretty unfair to penalize them for not fixing everything at once.

While I like what Denver did this year, Warkentien inherited a team that won 44 games. Under him it won 45 games in 2006-07, 50 games in 07-8, and then 54 games this year. That's nice growth over the past two years (although not terribly impressive in his first year).

In that same time period, Pritchard's team went from 21 wins to 54.

Pritchard's clearly had the better run. Warkentien pulled off one major deal that probably saved his job (for Billups) and got lucky that the Birdman seems to finally have his shit together. (If he hadn't got lucky on this one, they'd have a massive hole at center because they gave away Camby for nothing.)