Season 8 GMotY/IT Winners

[Swoosh]

I don't like to do write-ups for the voting anymore, because the votes usually speak for themselves...but I will this time. I need to issue a personal apology to the Toronto Raptors, who I royally screwed over in this GMotY voting by posting this so late. I always try to get the voting up and completed BEFORE the playoffs start, because this award should be about what a GM did with a team over the season...not an award for how a team does in the playoffs. Unfortunately, life got in the way, things got delayed and then no one voted by the deadline, so things got pushed WAY BACK. So what happened? In all the voting before the playoffs started (or even day 2 started for that matter), Toronto was leading the voting by a LARGE margin...it wasn't even close. In the last couple days, the rubes and boobs got to have their say...no research was done, as NY, Brooklyn and Mikawa flew up the charts based off their playoff runs. So again, I apologize Toronto...I failed you.

Fun fact...in the first 13 ballots, Mikawa received a whopping 0 points. In the last 5 ballots he received 18 and was 2nd or 3rd every time. I hate you all.

I've included both point totals and # of votes each team received.

GMotY
New York - 49 (14) - GMotY
Toronto - 40 (13)
Brooklyn - 29 (11)
Sarawak - 19 (8)
Mikawa - 18 (5)
Portland - 15 (4)
Belgrade - 12 (4)
Vancouver - 12 (4)
Buenos Aires - 10 (4)
San Antonio - 10 (3)
Taipei - 7 (3)
New Orleans - 6 (3)
Moscow - 3 (1)
Minnesota - 4 (1)
Moscow - 3 (1)
Piraeus - 3 (1)
Beijing - 2 (1)
Seattle - 1 (1)

IT

Los Angeles - 18 (8) - IT Winner
Boston - 14 (6)
Istanbul - 13 (6)
San Francisco - 13 (7)
Seattle - 9 (4)
Brazil - 7 (3)
Madrid - 5 (2)
Milan - 3 (2)
San Antonio - 2 (2)
Cairo - 2 (1)
Shanghai - 1 (1)
Roark - 1 (1)
New Orleans - 1 (1)
Cleveland - 1 (1)

On the IT side, the hate was fairly spread out by LA wins the IT award in a close vote. I personally loved Roark getting a vote while not even in the league...that's dedication to a vendetta.

PAST CHAMPIONS
2001 GMotY - Vancouver
2002 GMotY - Minnesota
2003 GMotY - Boston
2004 GMotY - Minnesota
2005 GMotY - New York
2006 GMotY - Piraeus
2007 GMotY - Beijing
2001 IT - San Antonio
2002 IT - San Antonio
2003 IT - San Antonio
2004 IT - San Antonio
2005 IT - Belgrade
2006 IT - Barcelona
2007 IT - Istanbul

[Madrid]

Congrats NY. Kenny Anderson wants another upgrade. Good to see Toronto and Brooklyn getting some love as well.

[New Orleans]

I had Toronto ahead of NY...

Thought Istanbul would win IT tbh... Lakers didn't even make my ballot.

[Brooklyn]

I think this win is deserved by NY. He made a few moves which took his team from great to dominant.

Toronto had a great year and deserved votes but not sure he was a shoe-in for 1st. He had 7 very mediocre seasons of never getting past the 1st round building up to this, and finally had an above average season. In real life I dont think people would consider this for executive awards. I also think his win total was an over achievement which was confirmed by his playoff results, so the delay in voting did technically hurt him but probably the right result in the end. Personally I had both NY and portland ahead of toronto. Portland managed to get a pretty bad roster into the playoffs. Also I voted for Roark for IT.

[Swoosh]

Oct 28, 2016 19:30:48 GMT Brooklyn said:

I think this win is deserved by NY. He made a few moves which took his team from great to dominant.

Toronto had a great year and deserved votes but not sure he was a shoe-in for 1st. He had 7 very mediocre seasons of never getting past the 1st round building up to this, and finally had an above average season. In real life I dont think people would consider this for executive awards. I also think his win total was an over achievement which was confirmed by his playoff results, so the delay in voting did technically hurt him but probably the right result in the end. Personally I had both NY and portland ahead of toronto. Portland managed to get a pretty bad roster into the playoffs. Also I voted for Roark for IT.

Loved the Roark vote...he earned it

[Toronto]

Oct 28, 2016 19:30:48 GMT Brooklyn said:

I think this win is deserved by NY. He made a few moves which took his team from great to dominant.

Toronto had a great year and deserved votes but not sure he was a shoe-in for 1st. He had 7 very mediocre seasons of never getting past the 1st round building up to this, and finally had an above average season. In real life I dont think people would consider this for executive awards. I also think his win total was an over achievement which was confirmed by his playoff results, so the delay in voting did technically hurt him but probably the right result in the end. Personally I had both NY and portland ahead of toronto. Portland managed to get a pretty bad roster into the playoffs. Also I voted for Roark for IT.

Still don't understand your obsession with me, congrats on [presumably] avoiding mediocrity by deliberately losing for a real-time year until you lucked into the showtime lakers.

And no apology necessary, I'm surprised I was ahead after the regular season, and I voted after the deadline.

[New York]

Congrats to the other winners. The final top 4 matches my top 4 albeit in a different order. Definitely think Toronto, Sarawak and Brooklyn had great years and I wouldn't have been disagreed with any of them winning. I was pleased with the moves we made including adding

Greg Oden, Kenny Anderson, Andrew Bogut, Vasily Karasev, Brian Winters, and a few others as well as re-signing Larry Nance.

So I appreciate the votes. I was definitely expecting another 2nd place finish since that's usually where I land on these so it was a pleasant surprise to see the results.

[Minnesota]

Pissed i didnt think to vote for roark

[Sarawak]

Good job everyone

PP Credited

200 for winner
150 for 2nd
100 for 3rd