And the award goes to … (Executive of the year)
Otherwise known as the Biggest Rapist of Fellow Executives Award, this one should be a toss-up between:
- Danny Ainge: got Garnett from Minnesota after McHale dropped trou, bent over and asked Ainge to take him hard from behind in the memory of their old Celtics days. Many GMs wish they’d have this kind of luck …
- Mitch Kupchak: after Kobe crapped all over the Lakers front office during the summer, Kupchak responded by getting Gasol for the change he had in his pocket and a couple of tickets to the 2005 Spurs-Pistons finals that nobody wanted to buy from him. I guess this was his way of telling Kobe: “Now you have what you’ve been whining for. Can YOU deliver the goods ?”
Even if there were a couple of other big moves (Shaq to Phoenix and Kidd to Dallas) who might turn out to put those teams over the hop, there just wasn’t enough time for those teams to gel, and since voting takes place before the playoffs start, even if one of them wins the title, it will be too late to land the award for Kerr or Donnie Nelson.
Joe Dumars might receive some votes as well for partially retooling the Pistons, but I think the real challenge for him will come this summer when he’ll finally have to face the fact that he has to rebuild this team of whining underachievers with a sense of entitlement.
My pick is Cupcake Kupchak, cause he didn’t have an old connection to help him land the player he wanted. He had to work hard to find a fool and part said fool and his money all-star player.
