The Executive of the Year voting was announced last night by the NBA, and the winner wasn’t our General Manager Masai Ujiri. He finished fourth in a close race won by San Antonio Spurs GM R.C. Buford.
Buford is a worthy winner. He should be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award, then removed from the annual ballot. The Spurs franchise under his watch is on the short list of the finest organizations in professional sports. Players take pay cuts to sign up as Spurs (cf. David West) because they figure their chances of winning an NBA Championship are better there than anywhere else.