{"id":75632,"date":"2024-04-30T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=75632"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:00:40","slug":"coach-turned-president-wins-executive-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/30\/coach-turned-president-wins-executive-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach-Turned-President Wins Executive of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics president Brad Stevens has been named the NBA\u2019s Executive of the Year for the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens easily overtook his competition, earning 16 of the 29 first-place votes and leading the way with 101 total points. He had more than double the amount of the next highest vote-getter, Oklahoma City Thunder president Sam Presti (47 points). Presti and Minnesota Timberwolves president Tim Connelly were tied with four first-place votes, the second-highest number.<\/p>\n<h2>Brad Stevens Named Executive of the Year<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Full NBA Executive of the Year voting as won by Boston&#8217;s Brad Stevens and as voted on by executives from the league&#8217;s 30 teams themselves:<\/p>\n<p>More NBA from me: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A6ycVmnrjq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/A6ycVmnrjq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7KfnrPfh4n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/7KfnrPfh4n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1785340617662373919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The other front office executives to earn first-place votes were: Houston Rockets general manager Rafael Stone (2); Dallas Mavericks president Nico Harrison (1); New York Knicks president Leon Rose (1); and Sacramento Kings president Monte McNair (1).<\/p>\n<p>Connelly (29 votes) and Rose (27 votes) ranked third and fourth in Executive of the Year voting, respectively.<\/p>\n<h3>Coming into His Own<\/h3>\n<p>Stevens deserves all the praise he\u2019s receiving. Transitioning to the front office from coaching in 2021, he\u2019s quickly come into his own as head of basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p>Last offseason, his decision to trade for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/holidjr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jrue Holiday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/porzikr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> proved fateful, helping Boston win seven more games than last season. Those moves cost them former cornerstone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smartma01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Smart<\/a>, former Sixth Man of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brogdma01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malcolm Brogdon<\/a>, and former first round pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/williro04.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Williams III<\/a>. Superlatives aside, each of those players improved the Celtics as a whole. Smart was considered the proverbial \u2018heart and soul\u2019 of the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>However, Holiday and Porzingis\u2019 shooting, defense, and decision-making allow them to be a more principled team. To that point, their star-laden roster is perceived as the driving force behind their record. Yet, their discipline is what separates them from similarly talented teams.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the NBA with a 64-18 record, the Celtics had their first 60-plus win season since 2008-09. It\u2019s their most victories since going 66-16 in 2007-08, the season that they won the championship. If Boston can <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/02\/16\/nba-contender-filming-documentary-similar-to-the-last-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">manage that feat<\/a>, it\u2019ll be an even bigger feather in Stevens\u2019 cap than winning Executive of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics president Brad Stevens has been named the NBA\u2019s Executive of the Year for the 2023-24 season. Stevens easily overtook his competition, earning 16 of the 29 first-place votes and leading the way with 101 total points. He had more than double the amount of the next highest vote-getter, Oklahoma City Thunder president Sam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":75636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1608,62,3],"tags":[300,1143],"class_list":["post-75632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celtics","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-brad-stevens","tag-nba-awards"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}