Kelly Dwyer: Ranking the NBA's 30 personnel bosses

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Kevin Pritchard: Ninth in SI, first in our hearts
Published 6/26/2007 by Casey Holdahl at Blazers Blog - OregonLive.com
Thanks to "bingobango27" in the forum for posting this link grading the general managers of the NBA . Kevin Pritchard, just a few months into his tenure as GM, is ranked ninth by Kelly Dwyer: Pluses: Pritchard understands that young, malleable talent is at a premium, and he isn't afraid to deal for it. He also understands that with every domestic or international prospect being scouted to the hilt, a GM cannot be close-minded or intractable, and that conventional scouting wisdom isn't nearly enough to pinpoint the best personnel. Pritchard doesn't appear to be the type to leave any stone unturned. Minuses: We're still trying to figure out just how large a role he had in Portland's post-Bob Whitsitt mistakes: handing big contracts to Darius Miles, Theo Ratliff and Zach Randolph; trading down to draft Martell Webster over Chris Paul; and taking Sebastian Telfair way too high in 2004. Most ...

Tuesday Polecats
Published 6/26/2007 by Seth at Posting and Toasting: Front Page Posts
... Kelly Dwyer ranked the NBA GM's from 1 to 30. Take a guess where Isiah falls. I'll give you a hint. It's not 1...iIt's not 2..it's not 3...and it's not 4-24. ...

Updates Part III
Published 6/26/2007 by Lil Dice at I Heart KG
... Kelly Dwyer/SI.com ranks the league's personnel bosses and puts Kevin McHale dead last. ...

Grant Hill Probably Won't End up in Toronto
Published 6/27/2007 by The Big Lead at FanHouse
... Damaging news to the league's top GM, Bryan Colangelo (this list is solid, but I've still got Colangelo at the top). I've been scouring the free agent lists floating about the net and there really isn't a glue guy to be found. Chris Webber? You know I like him, but I wouldn't put C-Webb in the Grant Hill glue category. Jerry Stackhouse? He's going to want minutes and shots, and might not be worth the headache. ...

Patience is a virtue. Unless it's John Paxson's patience, which is apparently dumb.
Published 6/27/2007 by Matt <info@blogabull.com> at Blog a Bull: Front Page Posts
... Kelly Dwyer knows Bulls basketball (he reads this blog, after all), so it's not surprising that he grades John Paxson very highly in his GM (er...personnel bosses) rankings: ...

Buzzer Beaters
Published 6/27/2007 by Ryan McNeill at Hoops Addict
... What was Kelly Dwyer thinking when he ranked Bryan Colangelo fourth on his ranking of the top personnel bosses? While the Mavericks and Pistons had better records than Toronto when you look at the moves BC has made he hasn’t had the same draft blunders that Dumars has (Darko) and he’s revived two franchise (Phoenix and Toronto) while Donnie Nelson took over an already strong Mavericks franchise. C’mon Kelly, time to give the reigning executive of the year some more respect! ...

Today’s Links 6/27
Published 6/27/2007 by FLCeltsFan at Celtics247.com
... SI.com    Ranking the GM’s :Bird 21, Ainge 22, McHale last ...

Tom Hicks is rich, Chris Young is good and there's a Chinese Magic Johnson?
Published 6/27/2007 by Chip's Moody Blues at Uwe Blog
... SI's Kelly Dwyer should look happier in his column mug. Anyway, he ranks Donnie Nelson as the second best "personnel boss" in the NBA, which is kinda tainted because the NBA may have the worst GMs in any major sport. Have you seen the Atlanta Hawks lately?

Celtics Links - 6/27/07
Published 6/27/2007 by Jim at Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts
... Ranking the GMs: Bird 21, Ainge 22, McHale last. ...

Around the Web...
Published 6/27/2007 by Crucifictorious at We Rite Goode
... From CNN/SI: Best and worst GMs. John Paxson in awkward position to give MJ assists.

It's just the beginning
Published 6/27/2007 by Pradamaster <info@bulletsforever.com> at Bullets Forever: Front Page Posts
... Second, this is Ernie Grunfeld we're talking about.  The man knows how to build good teams.  He took the Knicks to the NBA Finals, and if it weren't for Michael Jordan, they could easily have won it all.  He took Milwaukee to one game from the NBA Finals, even though they had no good big men and lacked depth beyond their Big 3.  With all due respect to blog friend Kelly Dwyer (easily the best writer at SI), he's better than the 11th best GM in the league.  I'd place him behind only R.C. Buford, Donnie Nelson, Bryan Colangelo, John Paxson, Kevin O'Connell, and maybe Kevin Pritchard and Sam Presti.  There are few GMs in this league that I'd trust to figure something out more than Ernie Grunfeld. ...

Draft Day Bullets
Published 6/28/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... SI.com's Kelly Dwyer ranks front office honchos. (I totally overuse the word "honcho" but I'm not going to stop anytime soon. I love it. It means GM, it means owner, it means almost anything!) RC Buford wins, and Kevin Pritchard is ninth. Interesting stuff. ...

Wallace Euphoria: 6 Years, $57 Million
Published 7/12/2007 at BobcatsPlanet.com
... a year (according to ESPN.com), Jason Kapono to Toronto for $5.36 million, Steve Francis getting paid not to play for $30 million, and the mother of them all: 6 years and $115 million to Rashard Lewis. I was actually in a bar with coworkers when I saw that last one, and if I hadn t been drunk already, I would ve sworn I was drunk. But enough about the others, here s to us! We ve got a great nucleus of stars at every position: Felton, Wallace, Richardson, Okafor, Bre well, four-outta-five ain t bad. We ve also got some bright electrons with Carroll, Herrmann, and Morrison (I still haven t given up). And if we can re-sign Jake Voskuhl, he can lend some stability; he s like the noble gas of the group. We also should have approximately $8-9 million remaining in cap space to get a competent backup point guard, so let s say a little prayer for MJ to make something happen. And on that note, I d like to thank CNNSI.com s Kelly Dwyer, who actually had poor MJ ranked second-to-last in ...

Wallace Euphoria: 6 Years, $57 Million
Published 7/12/2007 by Hugh at THE CHARLOTTE BLOGCAT
... But enough about the others, here’s to us! We’ve got a great nucleus of stars at every position: Felton, Wallace, Richardson, Okafor, Bre—well, four-outta-five ain’t bad. We’ve also got some bright electrons with Carroll, Herrmann, and Morrison (I still haven’t given up). And if we can re-sign Jake Voskuhl, he can lend some stability; he’s like the noble gas of the group. We also should have approximately $8-9 million remaining in cap space to get a competent backup point guard, so let’s say a little prayer for MJ to make something happen. And on that note, I’d like to thank CNNSI.com’s Kelly Dwyer, who actually had poor MJ ranked second-to-last in his rankings of GMs, 4 slots behind Isiah Thomas and 11 behind Steve Kerr, who I’m not sure has even officially taken the job yet. That can’t sit well with Mike, and we all know how he reacts to being slighted…

The Spurs Won't Pay the Luxury Tax
Published 7/13/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... , which surprised me) were quite encouraging even as a part of the New York Knick mess in 2004-05 and 2005-06. Isn't that deal, even with Bonner and Oberto's extensions, enough to miss the cap threshold once you buy Spanoulis out? Why throw in Scola? Was I wrong about RC Buford? I'd never seen him with sunnies on until that column was published. Should I have gone with Donnie Nelson? Nelson's signed Devean George - twice. The whole thing just shakes my faith. ...

When You Paste, It Cuts
Published 9/6/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Of course, as is my trademark, the first thing I did after reading TZ's initial take on the mess was to search my own name at the message board in question. Sure enough, an entire cut and paste of this column - which details who I thought to be the best and worst GMs in the NBA back in mid-June - was available to read on the site. ...

McHale ... McWronged!
Published 1/7/2008 at Ball Don't Lie
... I'll give Kevin McHale all the stick in the world, I called him the worst GM in the NBA last summer and meant it, but I don't understand for a second how Peter May thinks McHale "caved" in signing off on the deal that sent ...

Why ... Danny Ainge should be the Executive of the Year
Published 4/11/2008 at Ball Don't Lie
... About a year ago this time, I started to put together this column, ranking all the NBA's personnel bosses. And though I still believe the rankings and the words that go along with the rankings to be spot on as far as June of 2007 goes, the whole darn thing has gone topsy-turvy in the months since. ...