The annual front office survey is upon us with the start of the regular season only a week away and general managers around the league responded to 48 different questions about the best teams, players, coaches, fans, offseason moves, amongst other topics.
They were not allowed to vote for their own team or personnel. Percentages are based on the pool of respondents to that particular question, rather than all 30 GMs.
To no surprise, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich was voted the best coach in the league. The vote wasn't even close, as Popovich received 83.3 percent of the vote.
Pop has been a landmark of consistency in the NBA, as he's won 50 games or more as a coach of the Spurs in 18 of his 20 years in the league. One of the years where he didn't win 50 games, was the shortened 50-game season in 1998-99, in which he led the Spurs to a title.
The 67-year-old coach has reached the 60-win plateau five different times during his career, including a career-high 67 wins last season. Gregg Popovich is regarded as one of the most cerebral, yet one of the most compassionate, coaches in the association.
Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle finished second in the voting with 13.3 percent and up-and-coming Celtics coach Brad Stevens received the remaining 3.3 percent of the vote.
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