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SPURS’R.C. BUFORD WINS 2015-16 NBA BASKETBALL EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR AWARD
NEW YORK, May 9, 2016 –
San Antonio Spurs General Manager R.C. Buford has been named the 2015-16 NBA
Basketball Executive of the Year, the NBA announced today.
Buford, in his 14th season as the team’s general manager, previously won the
award in 2013-14.
Buford totaled 77 points and received nine of 29 first-place votes from a
panel of fellow team basketball executives throughout the NBA. The Portland
Trail Blazers’ Neil Olshey finished second with 63 points (10 first-place
votes), and 2014-15 winner Bob Myers of the Golden State Warriors was third
with 38 points (five first-place votes). Executives were awarded five points
for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one
point for each third-place vote.
Buford assembled a roster that produced the best record in franchise history
(67-15). The Spurs won at least 50 games for the 17th consecutive season and
captured their fifth Southwest Division title in the past six years.
San Antonio finished the regular season 40-1 at home, matching the NBA record
set by the 1985-86 Boston Celtics.
Fueled by two-time reigning Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year Kawhi Leonard,
San Antonio led the NBA in points allowed (92.9 ppg) and defensive rating
(96.6 points per 100 possessions). Leonard, acquired by San Antonio on draft
night in 2011, also averaged a career-high 21.2 points, ranked third in the
NBA in three-point field goal percentage (44.3) and earned his first All-Star
selection. He re-signed with the Spurs last July, just as Tim Duncan, Danny
Green and Manu Ginobili did.
Also in July, San Antonio’s salary-cap management enabled Buford and Head
Coach/President Gregg Popovich to sign free agent LaMarcus Aldridge to a team
that went 55-27 in the 2014-15 season. Aldridge averaged 18.0 points and a
team-high 8.5 rebounds and shot a career-high 51.3 percent from the field in
his first season with the Spurs, earning his fifth consecutive All-Star
selection.
San Antonio’s moves for this season also included signing two-time All-Star
David West, three-time Serbian Super League MVP Boban Marjanovic and
undrafted rookie Jonathon Simmons, who was the MVP of the championship game
at Samsung NBA Summer League 2015. All three players, along with 2014
first-round pick Kyle Anderson, contributed to the Spurs’ bench, which led
the NBA in net rating (outscoring opponents by 10.9 points per 100
possessions) and ranked third in scoring (39.2 ppg).
Buford joined the Spurs in 1988 and spent four seasons as an assistant coach.
He worked as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1992-93
season and was an assistant coach with the University of Florida in the
1993-94 season. He returned to the Spurs in 1994 and held the positions of
head scout, director of scouting and vice president/assistant general manager
before becoming general manager in July 2002. Buford was named president of
sports franchises for Spurs Sports & Entertainment in 2008, a role that
includes his work with the Spurs as well as oversight of sports administration
for the WNBA’s San Antonio Stars, the NBA Development League's Austin Spurs
and the San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League.
Below are the voting results for the 2015-16 NBA Basketball Executive of the
Year. The balloting was tabulated by the independent accounting firm of
Ernst & Young LLP.
內文有點長，大概就是說了一下R.C.的豐功偉業(?)
準備要睡了才看到這消息，懶得翻了XD (喂)
附上投票結果：
Executive, Team 1st 2nd 3rd Total
R.C. Buford, San Antonio 9 10 2 77
Neil Olshey, Portland 10 3 4 63
Bob Myers, Golden State 5 4 1 38
Masai Ujiri, Toronto 2 2 2 18
Rich Cho, Charlotte 1 2 6 17
Danny Ainge, Boston 1 2 2 13
David Griffin, Cleveland