Thunder's Sam Presti voted NBA Executive of the Year
The vote by his peers acknowledged his strong offseason in building a 68-win team.
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Thunder executive Sam Presti had already built a team that was a No. 1 seed with an elite young core of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren. Yet, last year's playoffs exposed some holes in the roster — they needed toughness — and Presti had a great offseason filling those by signing big man Isaiah Hartenstein and trading Josh Giddey to Chicago for Alex Caruso.
Those moves, leading the Thunder to a 68-win season and a team expected to come out of the Western Conference, earned Presti the NBA Executive of the Year award.
Sam Presti Named 2024-25 @NBA Executive of the Year pic.twitter.com/gnMi1dFfFM— OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) May 6, 2025
This is an award voted on by Presti's peers, the other lead executives/GMs around the league.
Presti got 10 first-place votes, with six second-place and six third-place votes. Cleveland's Koby Altman finished second in the voting with six first-place votes, with the Pistons' Trajan Langdon third. The Rockets' Rafael Stone finished fourth, and the Clippers' Lawrence Frank was fifth. In total, 13 executives got a top-three vote. The complete voting results can be seen here.
