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Was macht Hunter eigentlich aktuell bei den Hawks? Ist ja der Wahnsinn von der Bank. In den letzten Spielen scort er fast nen Punkt pro Minute. Starke Entwicklung obwohl er locker den Anspruch auf einen starter Platz stellen darf. Hawks generell gerade ziemlich stark.

Und Magic einfach brutal. Ich hab bei +17 für die Nets nie ihm leben an den turnaround geglaubt.

Warum hat Morant eigentlich im Spiel gegen okc gefehlt? Schade.
 
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Which team has the best front office in ‘big four’ leagues? Execs vote on their peers

This isn't a scientific comparison of front offices, but rather a ranking of which ones are viewed best by their direct competitors.
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Which front office is the best in sports?

In 2024, the answer to that question is the Oklahoma City Thunder, followed by the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Baltimore Ravens. At least according to their front-office peers.

At the start of each season this year, The Athletic polled 40 executives and coaches in each of the four major leagues — MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL — and asked them to rank the top five front offices, in order, in their respective sport. We polled the same number of executives and coaches (40) each time and used the same scoring system to rank front offices: First-place votes were worth 10 points, second-place seven, third-place five, fourth-place three and fifth-place one.


The Athletic then published the front-office rankings from the various leagues throughout 2024.

While there are slight differences in the number of teams in the four leagues — MLB and the NBA have 30 teams while the NHL and NFL have 32 teams — and varying sizes of front offices across the leagues, the scoring system offers an opportunity to make an apples-and-oranges comparison of front offices across different sports based on how their peers rated them.

In other words: This isn’t a scientific comparison of these front offices, but rather a ranking of which ones are viewed as the best by their direct competitors.
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1. Oklahoma City Thunder​

Total points: 354 points (29 first-place votes)
Governor: Clayton Bennett
General manager: Sam Presti
Head coach: Mark Daigneault

It’s one thing to be crowned the winner of this inaugural front-office “competition,” but this was a landslide victory for Sam Presti and his staff. So, why all the league-wide adulation for the job they do?

For starters, Presti — who learned under R.C. Buford and Gregg Popovich in San Antonio before taking over this front office during the Seattle SuperSonics days in 2007 — has long since proven himself to be an elite hoops architect. Building those Kevin Durant-Russell Westbrook teams (with James Harden early on) through the draft back in the day established that much. And his lack of a championship, quite clearly, was not seen by his peers as a disqualifier in this exercise.

But this latest Thunder creation is capable of two things that are typically impossible to accomplish at the same time: Title contention and (extreme) flexibility for the future. The master stroke that made it all possible — the July 2019 trade with the LA Clippers that brought Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, five first-round picks and two first-round swaps to town in exchange for Paul George — set the stage for what could be a very long run of success. The choice to make Mark Daigneault the head coach in November 2020, when he was elevated from their G League team after five years running that program, has been a hit.
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Along the way, the Thunder have amassed a collection of draft picks that is unrivaled in all the Association (13 first-round picks through 2030 and 17 guaranteed second-round picks in all). The timing of this particular strategy is quite perfect, as the structure of the league’s latest collective bargaining agreement is such that the value of draft picks are at an all-time high. As one rival executive pointed out, Presti was as close to that negotiating process as anyone before the CBA’s ratification in April 2023 and clearly knew prioritizing picks was paramount in this era.


“OKC, they’re so well positioned, Jesus Christ, for the next five years,” one assistant GM said.

Even with this loaded collection of talent, in other words, they have the assets to keep adding. Presti isn’t a one-man show, though, as he relies heavily on a front-office group that also includes former Orlando Magic general manager Rob Hennigan, Jesse Gould (in his 16th season with the organization) and Wynn Sullivan (in his 13th season with the Thunder).
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OKC mal wieder nicht genug gewürdigt ;)

Ansonsten noch aus der NBA:
Celtics auf 6
Heat auf 14
Grizzlies auf 18
Wolves auf 20 (?)
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Ich habe eine verwegene Idee ... es war gar kein Judowurf, sondern eher Aikido, weil er statt Schulterwurf einen eher schwierigen Drehwurf aus ner Abwärtsbewegung gemacht hat. :)
 
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Wembanyama is the first player in league history with 300 points, 100 rebounds, 50 blocks, 50 assists and 40 3-pointers in a single month.
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Spurs 122-86 Clippers (1 Jan, 2025) Game Recap - ESPN (UK)

Expert recap and game analysis of the San Antonio Spurs vs. LA Clippers NBA game from 1 January 2025 on ESPN (UK).
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Soll Shai sich seinen MVP-Titel diese Saison holen, ab nächster Saison geht der Titel nach San Antonio
 
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