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A long time coming for sure. Congrats RC!
about damn time.
:tu
At last! Congrats :tu
Congrats R.C. Well deserved and long overdue. :tu
It's kind of funny he'd win it this year though when he didn't really do anything (i.e. failed to execute any notable trades / sign any notable free agents from the buyout market) :lol
Well.. He was bound to win one, and it's been a long time coming. That said, congrats R.C!
Body of Work award along with league's best record this year. Why not?
Nice!!
The Belli effect.
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Originally Posted by bigfan
Then again the other contenders didn't do much either... which means the time was ripe for a "body of work" type of award.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
Excellent. Tbh I wasn;t expecting him to be in the running this year. I figured Morey would run away with it simply due to Dwight Howard
Took long enough.
:lol:lol:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by MI21
An additional ring would be a nice touch to the award.
Congrats R.C.!!!!
Lifetime achievement award tbh
Well deserved though
Larry Bird actually won the same award the same season he signed Ayers :wowQuote:
Originally Posted by MI21
Not sure he deserved it this year. But of all the years prior to 2014, RC truly wins tbh.
Knowing when to do nothing is a pretty good thing to know, as it turns out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
Also, re-signing Splitter sure looks like a damn fine move right now, doesn't it?
Congratulations R.C. You have been talked about for years as a brain trust in the F.O. Nice to see the recognition more than lip-service!!
Congrats RC....
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Didnt do anything this year... that's kind of funny. However I think he had deserved it a few years ago.
:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Mugen
Seriously though, congrats to RC. Doesn't deserve it this year but no doubting he has been an exceptional exec for a long time now.
It's obviously a lifetime achievement award which is more than fine with me tbh. RC has deserved it and is the Executive of the Century by far.
But any other GM that brings in a tiny toothed loser like Ayres should have been fired :lol
The history of the NBA needed RC to get this award at least once to recognize just how remarkably good the Spurs front office has been for a generation (regardless of what many Spurs fans think of it). Parts of the quiet greatness of this franchise during this era has already been lost with Bruce Bowen having never gotten the Defensive Player of the Year award he so richly deserved (and Tim Duncan likely retiring without ever having won that award either).
I believe that accolades genuinely don't mean much for these guys, but it's good to know that their mark on the NBA's history is now permanent and undeniable.
Congrats to RC and the Spurs!!!
I think he deserves it this year for NOT changing the team radically. That's an executive decision that seems to be paying dividends.
I'm still bitter Bird won it that one yearjust to make him MVP/COY/EOY.
He should honestly have at least 2-3 of them, tbh.
RC did something that takes a lot of guts. He overpaid a scrub that hindered the Spurs in Jeff Ayres and made the team stronger by overcoming that obstacle.
I think one of the reasons why RC hadn't won in the past, is that Pop, as team President and Head Coach, is perceived in the media to make all the decisions.
I don't think RC gets enough credit for training a lot of FO guys in the league who have turned out to be successful GMs after a stint with the Spurs. They may add their own wrinkles to the Spurs system of management, but the result speaks for itself. Other teams want Spurs FO alumni.
Also, those alumni are now voting for this award, since the Executive of the Year is voted upon by the other league general managers and not by the media. Having old friends with votes (and likely an understanding that this award is long overdue) helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by wildbill2u
Congrats on RC and Pop winning their just due awards this year, well deserved.
Eat this, Pop and RC haters!
:lol
Great news and well-deserved.
Something terrible though, I got the notification on my phone from the Spurs app and saw "Breaking news", then "RC Buford", and I immediately thought he passed away or something. :(
Very glad to read "Executive of the Year" after that little scare.
Congrats RC!
Who's gonna do damage control though? :lol
Ayers = EoY? Who knew? That might increase his trade value.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrjap2x
If the Pacers would have finished the season as strong as they started, Bird would have won in a landslide. There is something to be said for chemistry and continuity, and that Granger/Turner trade is looking like a disaster.
^ thisQuote:
Originally Posted by DieHardSpursFan1537
:lol wowQuote:
Originally Posted by mrjap2x
3 major awards in one year:
COY- Pop
EOY- RC
Finals MVP- TP
on the year all laughed at him for renewing Tiago and Manu at such amounts :lmao
dat $14M 2 years bargain contract sealed the deal for R.C tbhQuote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
I hope he will give you credit
I never thought Tiago's contract was a bad one on the contrary, it was the market price and it is an adequate amount...Quote:
Originally Posted by urunobili
For ElNono client contract, I must admit Manu is telling me during these POs shut the fuck up faggot tbh :lol
I am shocked he won it this year. He's been fantastic so I am thrilled for him and the Spurs. Having COY/EOY in the same year is very cool.
Congrats RC, long overdue.
This is more of a lifetime achievement award than anything. Which is fine. Congrats R.C.
This is true, doubt anyone can :downspin: this factQuote:
Originally Posted by mrjap2x
Niiiiice....we just had a thread last month about how he never won it :lol
TOOK LONG ENOUGH!
RC Buford joked he won Exec of the Year because he's finally got enough former staffers in GM posts to stuff ballot box.Quote:
Originally Posted by FromWayDowntown
https://twitter.com/JMcDonald_SAEN
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself”
Congrats to RC.
Pop is basically a media hog disguising as someone who doesn't like the media. Players are kept in line as well as RC and the rest of the staff. Pop, though, steals the limelight with his "coaches interview" schtik.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old School 44
I thought this was the Spurs' weakest off-season in recent memory. (I know 09 ended up being a failure, but we didn't know that until a year or so later.) But I guess there wasn't much real competition this year. King would have been a shoe-in had the Nets not had such a horrible start. As it was, instead of him getting credit for pulling off a huge deal, he got blamed for giving up so much of the future for such little return. I thought Danny Ainge did a pretty good job, but Boston sucked too much for him to have any chance to winning.
I probably would have given it to Cho out in Charlotte. His signings worked well. He made a smart trade to add talent. Overall he help bring a team from the bottom of the East to being a little respectable, and he did so without hindering his team's future prospects.
Well deserved and long overdue. Congrats to RC!
Sure it wasn't one of the most memorable spurs off seasons but fck it give RC some love
The taint of HWSNBN is finally gone
Breaking News: In a shocking move, the NBA rescinds Executive of the Year award after realizing Jeff Ayers is on the Spurs roster..Quote:
Originally Posted by MI21
http://www.nba.com/NBA-rescinds-top-...ve-award-spurs
That Manu extension did the trick, tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skull-1
The guy that put the Nets toghether deserved it this year, tbh.
Long overdue. Congrats RC.
do they really give this award based on the current year?Quote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
you can't really judge FO moves until years later
Gonna be honest.
It's bullshit, and not even by a little.
The Suns were predicted to have 18-20 wins. Both Hornacek and McDonough are uniquely responsible for a team who exceeded expectation by 30 games by trading veterans, acquiring hungry bench players, and having a vision and blueprint for success.
I get Buford is overall deserving, and Pops is Pops, but you all suck for tipping a figurative cap to such a goddamn travesty. Awards have officially slutted up their integrity.
:lol Suns were "predicted". What a terrible argument. By that logic, we can say Duncan is MVP, Pop COY and RC EOY and Manu 6MOY & Kawhi MIP because the Spurs have been "predicted" to be too old for so many years. They not only were "predicted" to melt down after what happened in last years finals, but they came out and had the best record in the league despite massive injuries and these "predictions".
Don't be an ass.
It's bullshit and you know it.
They had a bottom five roster before McDonough, and finished with 48 wins when he finished.
Many lament the past robberies of RC while with the same breath cheering on his bullshit lifetime win in the same bullshit robbery fashion at the expense of a rookie GM who took one of the league's bleakest rosters and futures and in one offseason changed its fortunes immeasurably.
All's fair, but calling a spade a spade doesn't make you a bad fan. It makes you a good one.
I can understand Pop. Did a hell of a job managing injuries, age.
But Buford is straight slung bullshit by jealous execs at the immediate and lasting effects McDonough has made to a team completely written off by even is Suns fans.
:lol The Suns were actively trying to put together a tanking team for this year's draft tbh....
i was shocked but happy when the news popped up on my iPod. long overdue but better late than never. :tu to RC.
And stumbled into 48 wins despite significant injury?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mugen
Don't be a head-in-the-sand RCtard.
It's a stolen, bullshit honor at the expense of the rightful rookie winner. Execs voted, sent a message. I'll send one, too.
Go simultaneously skullfuck yourselves.
McD did the following in last year's off-season:
Traded:
Jared Dudley + 2nd round pick --> Eric Bledsoe :lol
Luis Scola --> Gerald Green + Miles Plumlee + 1st round pick :lol :lol
Marcin Gortat + Shannon Brown + Kendall Marshall --> Emeka Okafor's $14mil expiring + 1st round pick
Hired Jeff Hornacek as coach
So basically he inherited a 25-win team with one of the worst rosters in the NBA, flipped a bunch of non-stars into a couple of 1st round picks and Eric Bledsoe, hired a coach of the year candidate, and turned the Suns into a 48-win team in the Western conference. His moves put our rebuilding efforts about 3 years ahead of schedule.
This is clearly a lifetime achievement award for RC, but McDonough got straight robbed here. Pop over Hornacek is understandable, if debatable. This is the first award this postseason I feel like they got completely wrong.
:lol Why are you so mad over this award? RC's been snubbed for this award for 10+ years....
Plus the league already gave Dragic his Most Improved Award so it's not like their season was completely ignored but at the end of the day, they still missed the playoffs.
If anything, I'd be mad at my GM for putting my team in a crappy position for a team in the NBA, not good enough for the playoffs and not crappy enough for a good lottery pick.
I'll be all for McDonough wining next season's award if the Suns can draft well and pick up an impact FA and they make a nice run next year, but I don't know if he should be lauded for having a mediocre year at best..
I've just never seen anybody be so mad over a GM of the year award tbh...:lol
It's bullshit. That's why.
Plain. Simple.
Anyone saying differently is an RCtard without wit or worth to any discussion.
Let it go, JMark. I'm sorry the NBA hasn't jerked off the 9th seeded Phoenix Suns enough tbh :lol
It took them forever! About damn time! Congrats RC!
Every Spurs fan agrees RC didn't deserve it this year. We just disagree with your logic about how the Suns got jobbed.
So there's a bell curve for deserving now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mugen
He did jackshit for the award this year. His robbery achievement gifting is so goddamn full of stank taint. Hollow. Fucking. Win.
Kind of like a 48 win no playoff season? :lol
Then who? Be someone and not a goddamn lapdog and bring something other than nothing to the discussion. Xy put it out there. McDonough swindled half the goddamn league and they fucked him for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DPG21920
Kind of like 6 last season, fucktard.Quote:
Originally Posted by DPG21920
Only it wasn't ineptitude that robbed this time, but woefully complete RCtardedness.
I didn't remember you being this big of a dummy - this a new corny common internet fan shtick?
Funny, could say the same toward you.
Agree w DPG, I don't remember you being this salty downstairs tbh.
:lol I don't think I've ever seen anybody get so mad over the Executive of the Year Award, especially if their argument is that their 48 win lottery team was robbed.
Weird schtick if it is, but I admire the gusto tbh...
If the league were to create a Funnest Team Watching the Playoffs award in the next week and award it to the Suns, would that at least help mitigate some of this terrible injustice tbh?
always new, pointless arguments on ST.
It's not like RC hasn't been jobbed in this category in the recent past; the year that he acquired Leonard, alone - for crissakes, Larry Bird, who (in retrospect) got fleeced in that deal won the award that year - should have netted him the award, but didn't.
So if not now, then when should Buford get the award he has so richly deserved for so long? I don't think there can really be any doubt that Buford has deserved this award for a number of years.
At some point, overcoming all of the obstacles that should prevent the Spurs from being competitive on a championship level in San Antonio (of all markets) for this long through the slow and steady process of building an organization deserves this type of recognition, even if it didn't occur as the result of a substantial turnaround or as the product of flashy moves.
*wasn't me*Quote:
Originally Posted by HI-FI
Go fuck your spurshole with RC thievin' award.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mugen
I'm not, nor have I ever been "that" Suns fan.
I've stated I get why Pops won over Hornacek.
This is bullshit, just as it was bullshit when RC lost previous.
The league can wipe all the bullshit from its ass with the ballots. That's about the only good they offer.
I admire the Spurs in many ways. But I'm gonna call bullshit bullshit and this was bullshit.
:lmao I can't wait until San Antonio wins "medical training staff of the year".
This gun b good.
Not in a year where he did almost nothing and others inherited goodman bottom-5 trainwrecks, put the train back together again, and if not for a 50-game injury derailment to a 20-5-5 starter, would have won the extra 2 games and been a 50-win playoff team.Quote:
Originally Posted by FromWayDowntown
If for no other reason, this season gave Hornacek and McDonough all the ammunition they needed to sell high to tank. And they didn't.
DPG and Mugen, ignoring the argument by focusing on JMark's aggression.
Trolling instead of debating.
Bringin' the bads.
You leave my Spurshole out of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMarkJohns
:rollinQuote:
Originally Posted by DPG21920
:lol What's there to argue, Xy? RC won because of his body of work over the course of his career, nobody's arguing that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xylus
I guess it sucks as a Suns fan but this isn't the US getting their gold medal taken away in '72 tbh.
RC's been robbed probably 4-5 times. He usually gets F'd by some GM that makes a splashy FA signing, and then spends the next 4-5 years trying to dump the contract. :lol
I had a Toronto fan trying to convince me that Ujiri deserved the award for the second straight year for dumping bad contracts. I told him that over the years, NO GM has done better at a) not getting into bad contracts and b) getting out of them when he did. Over the years they dumped Rasho, Malik, and Richard fucking Jefferson. :lol
Every Spurs fan has literally said RC didn't deserve it for this year. :lol I don't know what else you want us to do? Storm RC's house and take the award and then walk it to your front door?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xylus
He is being an idiot. Even if McDonough might have been a better choice, no one really wants to discuss it with him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xylus
Suns fans acting like RC hipchecked a guy into the scorer's table and provoked dudes to leave the immediate vicinity of the bench resulting in the NBA imposing a playoff suspension that likely cost their team a series and a title.
Like that ever happened.
I laid out why McD deserved the award. I agree with you guys that RC deserved the award in the past, but this seems like a very strange year to give it to him, since all he did was keep a Finals team intact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mugen
Suns fans worship at the foot of McD. We wanted to see our fearless leader get his recognition.
You're going after the wrong Suns fans, bruh. JMark and I know the Spurs were the better team in '07.Quote:
Originally Posted by FromWayDowntown
The Nets GM deserved it more than your guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMarkJohns
I don't think anybody in Spurstalk had a vote. Maybe rascal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xylus
So don't take it out on us.....I already conceded to JMarks that the Suns should win the Funnest Non-Playoff Team award and he told me to put that award in my "spurshole" so I'm not sure what else I can do tbh :lol