The Executive of the Year award is a strange one to handicap, as sometimes the league's best executive of a particular year could be the guiding hand on a losing team, and sometimes the best teams in the NBA take in upwards of a half-decade to fully construct. As was the case with 2013-14's Executive of the Year, San Antonio's R.C. Buford, his movement was spurred into action by David Robinson breaking his foot in Dec. 1996. It certainly wasn't the Feb. 2014 Austin Daye deal that pushed the Spurs over the top. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] This is why it was calming to have an outright, one-year candidate for 2014-15. A guy that went out and picked up the league's best player before adding several other major rotation players all within the confines of the calendar year. Because this is the NBA, though, that guy came in second place. Golden State Warriors general manager won the 2014-15 Executive of the Year award on Friday, beating out Cleveland Cavaliers GM David Griffin. Myers, who was the architect of the best regular season team in the NBA this year, received 13 first place votes to Myers' eight: