Executive of the Year Conundrum

What is the deal with the current state of the Executive of the Year award?  Bob Myers of Golden State ended up winning it but look at the players he added this year compared to my top 3. 

Myers – Steve Kerr (coach), Leandro Barbosa, Shaun Livingston, Justin Holiday, Brandon Rush & James McAdoo. 

David Griffin (finished 2^nd) – David Blatt (coach), LeBron James, Kevin Love, J.R. Smith, Iman Shumpert, Timofey Mozgov, James Jones, Shawn Marion, Mike Miller, Kendrick Perkins, Joe Harris & Brendan Haywood. 

Daryl Morey (7^th) – Trevor Ariza, Corey Brewer, Josh Smith, Jason Terry, Pablo Prigioni, Kostas Papanikolaou, Clint Capela, Joey Dorsey, K.J. McDaniels & Nick Johnson. 

Dell Demps (10^th) – Omer Asik, Dante Cunningham, Quincy Pondexter, Norris Cole, Jimmer Fredette & Toney Douglas. 

Obviously all of those guys aren’t difference makers but I’ll break it down for you. 

Myers hiring Kerr was a stroke of genius and Barbosa & Livingston were effective rotation players.  After that you are talking end of the bench guys unless you want to be generous and consider Holiday a part time rotation player.  So Myers won the award based on 3.5 additions?  Granted one finished second in Coach of the Year but still we are basically talking THREE pieces here. 

Now compare that to Griffin whose coaching hire wasn’t as successful but it wasn’t terrible either.  Griffin also added FOUR starters in James, Love, Smith & Mozgov AND a sixth man in Shumpert.  Not to mention that Jones, Marion & Miller were all in the regular rotation at various points during the season.  Yet somehow Myers’ resume trumps that?  

Morey added one starter in Ariza and completely rebuilt his bench on the fly with Brewer, Smith, Terry & Prigioni.  Dorsey and Papanikolaou also were in their regular rotation at different times.  No way does what Myers did top that.  

Demps acquired two starters in Asik & Pondexter and two major rotation pieces in Cunningham & Cole.  Jimmer was actually a rotation guy too until Cole took his minutes.  Even that is more than what Myers did. 

Last year’s winner was equally as ridiculous with R.C. Buford taking home the hardware.  (The breakdown would be just as lopsided if I did it.)  So what’s the deal here?  Is EOY now a lifetime achievement award for the guy who runs the team that finishes with the best record?  If that’s the case why do I sit for an hour in front of my computer every April breaking down what each guy did from the draft to the end of the season?  

Without the voting parameters being made public knowledge solving this problem will be darn near impossible since the executives that vote on this award don’t have their ballots published for all to see (like the media does on every other award).  The only way forward is to shame the people that voted for Danny Ainge & Stan Van Gundy first or Sam Hinkie & Mitch Kupchak second.  There’s no rational person that follows the NBA closely that would agree with such farcical votes.  I mean Ainge finished 4^th overall and his team was UNDER .500! 

There’s really no other point to this piece besides me getting all of this off my chest.  (For the record when I deliberate over my choices I only consider GM’s whose teams finished the season above.500.)

/rant