[NYTimes] Rockets ranked 11th best front office

WE'RE NUMBER ELEVEN!!! WE'RE NUMBER ELEVEN!!!!

 

Who are the top 10?

 

Stone has impressed me.

I think he'll rise on this list in the coming years if he keeps doing what's he done the last few years.

 

fixed

 

1. Thunder — 354 points (29 first-place votes; 9 second-place votes; appeared on 39 ballots)
2. Celtics — 250 points (9 first-place votes; 19 second-place votes; appeared on 35 ballots)
3. Heat — 114 points (7 second-place votes; 10 third-place votes; appeared on 24 ballots)
4. Grizzlies — 64 points (1 first-place vote; 1 second-place vote; appeared on 15 ballots)
5. Timberwolves — 54 points (1 first-place vote; 2 second-place votes; appeared on 15 ballots)
6. Knicks — 41 points (3 third-place votes; 7 fourth-place votes; appeared on 15 ballots)
7. Magic — 33 points (1 second-place vote; 3 third-place votes; appeared on 9 ballots)
8. Cavs — 30 points (3 third-place votes; 4 fourth-place votes; appeared on 10 ballots)
9. Warriors — 21 points (1 second-place vote; 2 third-place votes; appeared on five ballots)
10. Spurs —14 points (2 third-place votes; 1 fourth-place vote; appeared on four ballots)

Others receiving votes
11. Pacers (12 points)
11. Rockets (12 points)
13. Sixers (10 points)
14. Jazz (9 points)
15. Mavs (8 points)
16. Nets (6 points)
17. Bucks (3 points)
18. Raptors (2 points)
19. Wizards (1 point)
19. Nuggets (1 point)
19. Clippers (1 point)

 

The only reason the Spurs are on here is because they won a lottery on the year that happened to have Wemby in the draft. Literally that's it. Roster construction of the Spurs before Wemby was doggy doodoo.

 

When you think about the fact it wasn't even a year and a half ago that Wenbanyama didn't want to come here because we have a loser culture, this is insanely impressive. I remember every podcast I listened to didn't want Wenbanyama to land here. And yet here we are. I bet they wish Wenbanyama was on this team now.

 

Amen has a high ceiling but ya if we had Wemby instead of Amen we would be future perennial contenders. He's a cheat code.

 

5 and 6 should not be there

 

One of the funniest displays of the nerdification of sports is these contests and rankings of people who sit behind desks.

 

Reed Sheppard becoming a Star, that will boost Rankings, Top Seeds in the West, More Awards.

 

Is this just out of teams in the Western Conference

 

Were already 11th seed last year.

 

I was thinking 6 and 7.

 

bogus survey: no Lakes???

 

Cant believe the Wizards got votes. They have been irrelevant for so long now.