Sam Presti, from Oklahoma City Thunder, was announced on Tuesday as the NBA year executive, the reward for incorporating that team into a giant who won the 68 League games this season.
It is the first time that Presti won the prize and the first time since 1994 that the franchise, which was then called Seattle Supersonics, made its maximum executive vote as the winner. Bob Whitsitt won that season.
PRESTI, the executive vice president and general manager of the Thunder, obtained 10 votes from the first place of a panel of 30 basketball executives, one of each of the NBA teams, who classified their three best options in order. Presti appeared in 22 of those 30 tickets.
“I look at it as if it were a tremendous privilege to be able to do it,” Presti said at the beginning of the season when asked about his work. “Eventually, someone else is going to be the person who is doing it, and for me, while I am serving the position, I think I said this in the past, it is not my work, it is the work of the Thunder. I am only serving the position the best I can and, hopefully, I do a good job with as many people as possible, and I enjoy it.”
Koby Altman de Cleveland was second with six votes in the first place, after the Cavaliers won 64 games and ended at the top of the East Conference classification. They Trajan Langdon de Detroit also obtained six votes in the first place and it was third, after the Pistons went from a team of 14 victories to a 44 -wiring playoff team in its first year that led to that office.
Rafael Stone de Houston (four votes first) was fourth, Lawrence Frank de los Angeles Clippers (a vote in the first place) was fifth and Rob Pelinka of Los Angeles Lakers (also a vote in the first place) was sixth. Pelinka designed the biggest exchange of the season, which brought Luka Doncic to the Lakers of the Dallas Mavericks, but appeared in just five of the 30 tickets.
Mike Dunleavy by Golden State was seventh, Sean Marks from Brooklyn and the 2024 prize winner Brad Stevens, from the Boston Celtics (which obtained a vote in the first place) tied in eighth place, and Leon Rose of New York was tenth.
Monte McNair of Sacramento was the 11th, while Jeff Weltman de Orlando and Brian Wright of San Antonio tied in the twelfth.
The Executive of the Year award is not like most honors of the NBA season that are voted for a global panel of 100 writers and speakers who cover the League and broadcast votes shortly after the end of the regular season.
Awards that were part of this voting process and have already presented their results: Kenny Atkinson de Cleveland winning Coach of the year, Dyson Daniels de Atlanta winning Most improved playerSan Antonio’s Stephon Castle winning Rookie of the year, Evan Mobley de Cleveland Defensive player of the year, New York Jalen Brunson winning Clutch player of the yearand Boston Payton Pyton Pritchard winning Sixth man of the year.
Other awards announced by the League since the end of the regular season: Stephen Curry by Golden State won the Twyman-Stokes Team AwardHis Warriors teammate, Draymond Green, won the prize And Boston Jrue’s holidays won the prize For the second time in his career. The League Social Justice Champion will be revealed on Wednesday.
The main awards that will be announced later in the playoffs include MVP (either the Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of Oklahoma City, Nikola Jokic of Denver or Giannis Antetokounmpo of Milwaukee), in addition to the All-Rookie and All-Terokie and All Defensive teams.
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