NBA Exec of the Year - Pritchard gets ZERO votes

Isn't that award basically an NBA Championship? (excluding Boston last year)

 

1. KP didn't do anything really this year other than the TE trade, and this off-season he really only got back 2 rookies he drafted the year before, and drafted 2 players only one really contributing. The trade he made in the offseason of trading Jack for Jerryd doesn't seem like that good of a trade right now because Jack would have been great for us this year and especially in the playoffs.

2. If this award is a popularity contest, well then you know why he didn't get any votes.

 

Pritchard did nothing this year to earn any votes for the award.

 

Much like coach of the year, exec of the year seems to be a "what have you done lately" poll. Pritchard got Jerry Sloaned for not having achieved everything he's done in a single season.

And there's also that Pritchard has fucked over a few of the voting executives in putting together this team. Think he'll ever get an exec of the year vote from Boston or Phoenix?

 

It sounds to me like it is time to Pritchslap someone!!!

 

That's the spirit!!

If KP would have gone Gerald Wallace for RLEC + Webster, I think we'd be in the 2nd round right now, and KP would have gotten a lot of votes. Of course, it's hard to be a trade that basically turns your whole franchise around, for now and in the future, like Denver did.

 

I think that when you look at this, that actually when it comes down to it, what did KP do this year? The only move he made was to trade Kareem Rush and Jarett Jack for Bayless. Bayless didn't play much, and most of the other things folks think about KP doing, were done 2 years ago, not this year. This is GM of this year. Not 2 years ago. Denver's get's it hands down.

Now if they had a worst GM of the year award, that goes to Joe Dumars.

 

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!

 

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.

 

The team president sent that email, not Pritchard.

 

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!

 

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...

 

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.)