Every year, since 1973, one NBA general manager or team president has been named the league’s Executive of the Year. The award is certainly an honor but also shortsighted. It rewards the decision-maker who is having a good year and is prone to recency bias, and it does not necessarily reward long-term savvy or even immediate success. Since 2009, when the NBA took over the process and crowned the winner by polling league executives, its winner has come from the championship team just four times.
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Being a great executive is complicated. It takes skill, smarts, guts and, yes, luck. Putting together one great year is difficult; putting together a run
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