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wow you did not under line his signing of rasho
The GM whose first major personnel move was to trade for Rasho Nesterovic will today be named the Executive of the Year by the NBA.
BC=EOYRaptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo will be named executive of the year today by the NBA.
The announcement will mark the second major award won by a member of the Raptors organization this season. Sam Mitc was named coach of the year last month.
It will also mark the second executive of the year award for Colangelo, who also won in 2005 after guiding the Phoenix Suns to the third-greatest turnaround in NBA history during the 2004-05 season.
Colangelo joined the Raptors on Feb. 28, 2006 after 15 years in Phoenix. He rebuilt a moribund squad that won 27 games during the 2005-06 season into a team that won 47 games in the 2006-07 season, while capturing a division le for the first time in team history. The Raptors also qualified for the playoffs for the first time since the 2001-02 campaign.
After touching down in Toronto, Colangelo made three key trades to help transform the club into a playoff contender, acquiring point guard T.J. Ford from the Milwaukee Bucks, forward Kris Humphries from the Utah Jazz and centre Rasho Nesterovic from the San Antonio Spurs.
He also made two huge moves by looking overseas, signing European free agent forward Jorge Garbajosa and shooting guard/small forward Anthony Parker, an American who starred with the Maccabi Tel Aviv team.
Colangelo also took a flyer in drafting Italian forward/centre Andrea Bargnani with the first pick overall in last summer's NBA draft. Bargnani, whose play improved steadily as the season progressed, until he went down with appendicitis, finished second in Rookie of the Year voting.
Colangelo also convinced the club's all-star forward Chris Bosh to sign a long-term extension with the club.
Colangelo's job in rebuilding the franchise was helped immensely by Raptors senior basketball advisor Wayne Embry.
In his capacity as interim GM prior to Colangelo's arrival, Embry created significant cap room for the team by trading Aaron Williams to New Orleans/Oklahoma City and Jalen Rose to the New York Knicks.
wow you did not under line his signing of rasho
Yea!
Congrats!
This is pretty weak, yet expected. I'm still not sold that the Ford for Villanueva was a good trade long-term. Ford is injury prone and if you look at the numbers, the Raptors best point guard was Jose Calderon ... who was there when Colangelo got there.
Bargnani is far from a sure fire hit as the number one overall pick in the draft. I'd take Brandon Roy seven days a week over Bargnani. Jorge Garbajosa is one of the most overrated rookies I've ever seen.
I'll give him credit for the Anthony Parker signing ... but Parker was hardly a secret.
Trading for Rasho was a bad move. Not only did he end up getting DNP-CD's in the playoffs, the Raptors are still on the hook for two more years. And guess what? They are going to try to trade Rasho again this summer.
The dumbest thing overall is Colangelo blew his load to build a team for this season. If he would have waited, the Raptors would have had a world of cap space to go after some bigger stars.
If the Raptors wouldn't have traded for Ford and Rasho, and didn't sign Garbajosa and Parker, they'd have under $27M guaranteed in contracts next season. That's nearly enough for THREE max free agent contracts.
Ford + Rasho + Garbajosa + Parker > Three max free agents? no.
Even if you are a believer in Ford, they could have just not gotten Rasho, Garbajosa and Parker and still have a huge amount of money to spend this summer.
So basically Colangelo won the award because he didn't wait one year to actually open up significant cap room to try to sign multiple stars and instead acquired a bunch of decent players. And on top of that, he likely made the wrong pick with the number one overall selection.
Props
As a Spurs fan, Colangelo's MY executive of the year.
1. Baragnani is a big time player in my opinion. He is not afraid and has performed big time in the playoffs for a rookie even though he was out for a month. I dont think Roy has a bigger promiss.This is pretty weak, yet expected. I'm still not sold that the Ford for Villanueva was a good trade long-term. Ford is injury prone and if you look at the numbers, the Raptors best point guard was Jose Calderon ... who was there when Colangelo got there.
Bargnani is far from a sure fire hit as the number one overall pick in the draft. I'd take Brandon Roy seven days a week over Bargnani. Jorge Garbajosa is one of the most overrated rookies I've ever seen.
I'll give him credit for the Anthony Parker signing ... but Parker was hardly a secret.
Trading for Rasho was a bad move. Not only did he end up getting DNP-CD's in the playoffs, the Raptors are still on the hook for two more years. And guess what? They are going to try to trade Rasho again this summer.
The dumbest thing overall is Colangelo blew his load to build a team for this season. If he would have waited, the Raptors would have had a world of cap space to go after some bigger stars.
If the Raptors wouldn't have traded for Ford and Rasho, and didn't sign Garbajosa and Parker, they'd have under $27M guaranteed in contracts next season. That's nearly enough for THREE max free agent contracts.
Ford + Rasho + Garbajosa + Parker > Three max free agents? no.
Even if you are a believer in Ford, they could have just not gotten Rasho, Garbajosa and Parker and still have a huge amount of money to spend this summer.
So basically Colangelo won the award because he didn't wait one year to actually open up significant cap room to try to sign multiple stars and instead acquired a bunch of decent players. And on top of that, he likely made the wrong pick with the number one overall selection.
Props
2. Rasho trade helped them win more regular season games and made them more sound defensively. I dont think anyone expected much from Rasho in the playoffs. This is not why they got him.
3. They have 2 max contract players. Or better said one will become one soon. Baragnani and Bosh are both good people and players and VERY YOUNG.
Should they sign VC back?
4. BC couldnt wait another year because that is a franchise HUNGRY of Ws and playoffs. Also it would make bad karma if they would be loosing. Their chemistry was one of the biggest pluses.
5. One thing that i do agree is the Ford situation.
He's a bad shooter and doesnt get his teammates involved well enough. Or better said... Calderon does a better job.
His contract is too big.
Awfully impressive what he did in Toronto. For the most part his moves worked out.
Yea- because Williams/Ely and Bonner have contributed so much in this playoff run for the Spurs!!
I'll trust Colangelo with any draft. He's been either the chief of draft operations or GM since the mid-90s and under his draft hand the Suns, with mostly mid-rounders have drafted...
1994: Wesley Person,
1995: Michael Finley
1996: Steve Nash
1997: Stephen Jackson (2nd round)
1999: Shawn Marion
2002: Amare Stoudemire, Casey Jacobsen
2003: (traded for Leandro Barbosa's rights)
That's a pretty damn good team right there. While he shouldn't get all the credit, and while there were several misses, mostly in the second round, however, his draft record speaks for itself. Takes chances, most that pay off. His only great miss was the Jacobsen pick with Teyshaun Prince and Carlos Boozer on the board. He went for need, which was welcome, but with CJ never becoming the marksman most thought he'd be and those two going on to being very good players, that looks bad now. The rest were either flyers on big time talents that never quite got it (like Mario Bennet in 1995 and Zarko in 2003), most have gone on to become very productive, if not All-stars.
Some of his signings were to make them a playoff team now, getting attention and respect back. May not have been the best decision longterm, but he's build some pretty good teams in short order. If he builds it, I'll trust it will be successful within short order.
I doubt that many max free agents would want to sign a contract with a Canadian team.
In the AP story on BC today:
ColangeloColangelo is already making plans for Bargnani's maturation.
"It's likely that he finds himself playing a lot of five next year," Colangelo said. "Whether he starts over Rasho (Nesterovic) is unknown at this point but you're going to see him playing a lot there."
100% agree with that.This is pretty weak, yet expected. I'm still not sold that the Ford for Villanueva was a good trade long-term. Ford is injury prone and if you look at the numbers, the Raptors best point guard was Jose Calderon ... who was there when Colangelo got there.
Bargnani is far from a sure fire hit as the number one overall pick in the draft. I'd take Brandon Roy seven days a week over Bargnani. Jorge Garbajosa is one of the most overrated rookies I've ever seen.
I'll give him credit for the Anthony Parker signing ... but Parker was hardly a secret.
Trading for Rasho was a bad move. Not only did he end up getting DNP-CD's in the playoffs, the Raptors are still on the hook for two more years. And guess what? They are going to try to trade Rasho again this summer.
The dumbest thing overall is Colangelo blew his load to build a team for this season. If he would have waited, the Raptors would have had a world of cap space to go after some bigger stars.
If the Raptors wouldn't have traded for Ford and Rasho, and didn't sign Garbajosa and Parker, they'd have under $27M guaranteed in contracts next season. That's nearly enough for THREE max free agent contracts.
Ford + Rasho + Garbajosa + Parker > Three max free agents? no.
Even if you are a believer in Ford, they could have just not gotten Rasho, Garbajosa and Parker and still have a huge amount of money to spend this summer.
So basically Colangelo won the award because he didn't wait one year to actually open up significant cap room to try to sign multiple stars and instead acquired a bunch of decent players. And on top of that, he likely made the wrong pick with the number one overall selection.
Props
When colangelo was EOTY with Phoenix, it was too quite weak in fact.
The Nash pickup was great but he had done a lot of crappy moves in 05-06 : not signing an extension to Joe Johnson, trading the 7th pick (Deng and iguodala were available at that pick) and signing Richardson to a monster contract.
A Nash/Johnson/Deng/Marion/Stoudamire with Barbosa on the bench would have been a quite good team.
love how ploto keeps going back to the stupid hes contributed more than Williams and Bonner.
Bonner would've helped a load vs New Jersey.
Nice move Jr.
Raps will a force in a few years.
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