Sam Presti from OKC chose the NBA of the year Executive

Sam Presti from Oklahoma City Thunder was announced on Tuesday as the Executive of the Year of the NBA, the reward for the establishment of this team to a juggernach that won the best 68 games in the league this season.

It is Prestis for the first time to win the price, and the first time since 1994 that the franchise – which was then called Seattle Supersonics – voted his top manager as a winner. Bob Whitsitt won it this season.

Presti, the Executive Vice President and General Manager from Thunder, received 10 votes from a body of 30 basketball leaders -one of the individual teams of the NBA -who made their three best options. Presti appeared on 22 of these 30 ballots.

“I look at it as if it were an enormous privilege to do it,” said Presti at the beginning of the season when he was asked about his job. “At some point someone else will be the person it does, and for me, while I use the position, I think I have said it in the past, it's not my job, it is the job of thunder. I only serve what I can do and hopefully do a good job with it as many people as possible, and I enjoy it.”

Clevelands Koby Altman finished second with six voices after the Cavaliers won 64 games and took on the Eastern Conference classification. The Trajan Langdon from Detroit also received six votes with first place and finished third after the pistons in his first year, which led this front office, had become a playoff team with 44 victories from a 14-win team.

Houston's Rafael Stone (four first votes) was fourth, the La Clipper's' Lawrence Frank (one first place) was fifth and Rob Pelinka from Los Angeles Lakers (also a first vote) became sixth. Pelinka developed the greatest trade of the season that Luka Doncic brought from the Dallas Mavericks to the Lakers – but was only listed in five of the 30 ballots.

Mike Dunleavy in the Golden State was the seventh, Brooklyns Sean Marks and the 2024 award winner Brad Stevens from the Boston Celtics (both received a first vote in the first place) and New York Leon Rose was 10.

Monte McNair von Sacramento was 11th, while Jeff Weltman from Orlando and San Antonios Brian Wright took the 12th place.

The “Executive of the Year” award is not like most honors of the NBA season, which coordinates a global panel by 100 writers and transmitters who cover the league shortly after the end of the regular season and hand in a ballot paper.

Awards that were part of this coordination process and have already presented their results: Cleveland Kenny Atkinson's coach of the Year, Atlantas Dyson Daniels, who won the most improved player, Stephon Castle Castle Castle Castle Castle Castle Castle Castle the Years of Years, the Jaliton of the Years winner with the winning of the year, New Yorker Jalnes, the New York Jalen, had won the year that the most improved player had won. Payton Pritchard won the sixth man of the year.

Other awards announced by the league since the end of the regular season: Stephen Curry von Golden State won the Twyman-Stokes teammate of the year, the Warriors teammate Draymond Green won the Hustle Award and Bostons Jrue Holiday for the second time in his career. The Liga Social Justice Champion will be announced on Wednesday.

The most important awards that will later be announced in the playoffs include MVP (either Shai Gilgeous-Alexander by Oklahoma City, Nikola Jokic from Denver, Giannis Antetokounmpo by Milwaukee) as well as the teams of all-NBA, all-rookie and all-defensive teams.