NBA Official 2026 NBA Playoffs Thread

[LeBowen]

Wright will have a chance since he has some upcoming decisions that won't be layups tbh.

Deciding what to do with Champ, Fox, Barnes, a late 1st rounder this year plus a multitude of 2nd rounders at his disposal, etc.

Will be interesting to see what he does when he doesn't have a Top 5 pick or a star player requesting to be specifically gifted to him.

I'd say Keldon is an even bigger decision.
Spur for life, but we can't overpay him, especially since he's been pretty bad in the playoffs so far.
Champ is an easy one, imo. Decline his option and sign him right away while we still have the space.

 

[scott]

Wright will have a chance since he has some upcoming decisions that won't be layups tbh.

Deciding what to do with Champ, Fox, Barnes, a late 1st rounder this year plus a multitude of 2nd rounders at his disposal, etc.

Will be interesting to see what he does when he doesn't have a Top 5 pick or a star player requesting to be specifically gifted to him.

What's weird about the Exec of the Year Award... Wright could completely fumble all of those decisions (do nothing but let Champ play out his final year, overpay in resigning Barnes, whiff on every pick, there is really nothing to do with Fox) and the Spurs will still probably be a 60-win team next year and he'll still look good. The impact of all of those decisions won't be felt for another 3 years, and by then maybe Wright will already have won EOTY.

But that's kind of my point on EOTY being a multi-year award... Stevens winning this year seems illogical to me, because he's being rewarded for work he did a long time ago (which he's actually already won this award for, the year before last). Kind of how like Presti winning it last year isn't necessarily because of any great move Presti made in the summer of 2024, it was because of the years of work he put in to build the 2024-25 OKC Team.

There are plenty of good cases to make for others... but Wright deserves to be higher this year, imho.

 

[spurraider21]

Stevens deconstructed a roster and Mazzula kept them competitive when everybody else thought Stevens was setting up a gap year. Stevens salary dumped KP, dumped Holiday for Anfernee Simons, let Kornet and Horford walk. then Simons was flipped (along with a 2) for Vucevic.

as for actual impressive moves from Stevens... Celtics drafted Hugo Gonzalez who looks like a player, and signing Garza gave them an actual rotation piece for the regular season

i dont think it screams "executive of the year' worthy, but really, what GM had a team transformative year worth discussing? maybe Atlanta?

Wright had a solid year. Kornet signing has been a home run and the contract is team friendly. the harper pick was an obvious move for anybody not named KOC. the bryant pick was clearly the right one. but otherwise...? dumping branham/welsey for olynyk was pointless and we gave up a SRP to do so. failed to get anything for sochan and replaced him with the corpse of mason plumlee

 

[BatManu20]

May have to reconsider that Fox for Jabari Smith Jr. trade idea now tbh

https://twitter.com/x/status/2049214235540914608

 

[scott]

Stevens deconstructed a roster and Mazzula kept them competitive when everybody else thought Stevens was setting up a gap year

Stevens salary dumped KP, dumped Holiday for Anfernee Simons, let Kornet and Horford walk. then Simons was flipped (along with a 2) for Vucevic.

as for actual impressive moves from Stevens... Celtics drafted Hugo Gonzalez who looks like a player, and signing Garza gave them an actual rotation piece for the regular season

i dont think it screams "executive of the year' worthy, but really, what GM had a team transformative year worth discussing? maybe Atlanta?

Stevens maybe is more deserving of an Apple Designer of the Year Award for what he did. A great Steve Jobs quote: "perfection in design is not when you have nothing left to add, but rather when you have nothing left to take away"

Onsi in ATL makes the best case for me other than Wright.

I don't see how Jeff Peterson deserves any consideration... he took a team deliberately tanking to a play-in team, which really any tanking team can do by just not tanking anymore.

I'd probablu put Presti third because he's built a dynasty contender. I'd even put Stevens behind Langdon (and give Mazzulla COTY)

 

[Mugen]

I mean KD probably wasn't wrong about Jabari tbh

 

[LeBowen]

The former Suns owner (Sarver) wanted to cut the roster to only the 7-8 guys D'Antoni played, asked why coaches couldn't fill in for 5 on 5 practice. Refused $100k to upgrade from Best Buy hard drives to an enterprise server. It was a factor in why Aldridge chose the Spurs in FA.

 

[Seventyniner]

EOTY has turned into Overachieving Team of the Year, that's all. COTY gets similar treatment, and it's most of how MIP is voted too.

 

[BatManu20]

SGA just posted this to his IG . Can't stand this cornball's goofy captions, but this pic is kinda funny tbh.

 

[O_V]

I don't recally any trepidation regarding bringing in CP3 tbh. His "locker room concerns" are also completely different than Durant.

CP3 grates veterans with his perfectionism and leadership style. But I thought most Spurs fans thought it'd be a good fit with the super young Spurs core.

He also had prior experience of being a good leader to young guys in OKC and Phoenix. Durant has NEVER had that on his resume tbh.

Yeah, nobody had any problem with Chris Paul coming in because of character or locker room issues. They didn't like him because he's a flopping little bitch. I still think he's a flopping little bitch, but he was good for the Spurs when he was here.

 

[scott]

SGA just posted this to his IG . Can't stand this cornball's goofy captions, but this pic is kinda funny tbh.

Shai earns points for this one. Fuck Brooks.

 

[Mugen]

SGA is a goober but Brooks is a straight up a clown (or at least he plays one in the NBA) tbh.

 

[mudyez]

What's weird about the Exec of the Year Award... Wright could completely fumble all of those decisions (do nothing but let Champ play out his final year, overpay in resigning Barnes, whiff on every pick, there is really nothing to do with Fox) and the Spurs will still probably be a 60-win team next year and he'll still look good. The impact of all of those decisions won't be felt for another 3 years, and by then maybe Wright will already have won EOTY.

But that's kind of my point on EOTY being a multi-year award... Stevens winning this year seems illogical to me, because he's being rewarded for work he did a long time ago (which he's actually already won this award for, the year before last). Kind of how like Presti winning it last year isn't necessarily because of any great move Presti made in the summer of 2024, it was because of the years of work he put in to build the 2024-25 OKC Team.

There are plenty of good cases to make for others... but Wright deserves to be higher this year, imho.

I'm still puzzled about noone giving Larry Bird shit for his EOTY award...after all it was the year he traded us Kawhi.
But yeah, I guess they just wanted the MVP/COTY/EOTY thing.