http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10708140/2014-nba-front-office-rankings ESPN is ranking team's management office. Where do you guys think Rockets will land? Here's my top 5: Spurs Thunder Lakers Miami Rockets
Lakers? That entire organization is a mess right now, and the only thing that they keep saying is, "We are the Lakers, we always bounce back and big-name free agents always choose to come here." I guess if having an unrealistic view of your own team's outlook, and destroying all of the team's cap space by paying a past-his-prime injured star 25 million a year- if those are the moves it takes to be counted as a top five office then the Lakers definitely fit!
LOL at 76er's being down at the bottom. So I guess this ranking is based on the former front office more than it is the current front office since they are now cleaning up the garbage from the previous stint? If this is a power ranking of successful teams than just make it about the team. Ranking front offices seems kind of subjective anyways to start.
If so, then Denver would be near the top, since they had both the COY and GMOY last year. btw: this poll includes coaches.
I would rank the Sixers in the middle to bottom. They haven't been on the job that long, and none of the moves they have made have materialized on the floor yet. Hinke and Brown may prove to be great at what they do, but right now they have accomplished very little.
Historically you'd have to include the Lakers in the Top 5, but not with Jr. running the team and Pringles is not a great coach. My top 5 would be: Spurs Miami Mavs Rockets Thieves
Top 4 are all heavy analytical front offices, I was going to include Hinkle but he still has a ? Next to his name, lakers are their a shock for some but hey have the track record and morey always says their the hardest front office to negotiate with in good way. 1) spurs had the front office to continually retool with superstar core pieces and figured out the corner 3 was the best before everyone else 2) rockets insert daryl morey 3) celtics - where morey came from and never seem to do terriable trades these days, and the Stevens hiring is anouther fantastic move 4) portland - in morey's words the Wallace trade for lillard was the best trade of the last decade, + their role players are sneaky good signings for a city with no draw. 5) Lakers - have the track record, the city and kupchek who delivers on superstars when we were all saying when they got dwight and Nash they were going to win it all. Wouldn't be Suprised in the next 5 years if we are saying it again Could swap celtics and rockets around but since it's clutchfans go rockets
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10708140/2014-nba-front-office-rankings Number 7, not even top 5. Being a Rockets fan i would at least expect top five but reading it we probably had a poor rating for coach. "We asked our ESPN Forecast panel to rate every owner, basketball decision-maker and coach from 0 to 10, and we asked the panel to tell us how important each role is."
Well, I'm surprise our front office is not in the top five. I was at least hoping to get the fifth spot since it's base on perception not numbers. I'm surprise that the Celtic is ahead of us though.
How do you not rank Toronto in the top 5? Ujiri is a great GM. Ranking them 13 is a travesty. And ranking horrible front offices like Charlotte and Sacramento over Philadelphia is crazy.
1. San Antonio 2. Miami 3. Dallas 4. Indiana 5. Chicago 6. Boston 7. Houston 8. Oklahoma City 9. Portland 10. Golden State 11. Memphis 12. Phoenix 13. Toronto 14. LA Clippers 15. Brooklyn 16. LA Lakers 17. Atlanta 18. Orlando 19. Utah 20. New Orleans 21. Sacramento 22. Charlotte 23. Denver 24. Philadelphia 25. Minnesota 26. Washington 27. Cleveland 28. Detroit 29. Milwaukee 30. New York
This list is the overall ranking, including owners and coaches. I expect darly will make the top 5 in a separate ranking.
Coach is 1/3 of the scoring. Just having Pops or Thibs massively inflates your score. So while I'd put Daryl Morey among the top GM's in the NBA, could you *really* argue that McHale is among the top head coaches? And it's really hard to say how they judge ownership groups. Like comparing Alexander vs Cuban vs MLSE (Raptors) ... I could see giving Cuban extra points due to his involvement and penalizing the Raptors due to MLSE being a faceless corporation with a dodgy track record. And the Celtics FO has done a tremendous job clearing cap, loading on picks and Brad Stevens looks really promising. I can see where they're coming from.
Boston has 5 future first round picks owed to it and Morey has referred to the Celtics as the front office he respects the most. When some team stupidly gives a couple of first rounders for Rondo, they will have 7 extra 1st round picks.
