S64 Wignosy Memorial GM of the Year Nominations (due Friday, 7/10 @ 8pm CST)

[AngryBanana]

Anybody who submits a nomination can claim 1 point (excluding self-nominations)

Max is 1 point, even if you submit nominations in other categories

Winning nomination gets an additional point like last season

Submit your nominations by Friday, July 14 @ 8:00pm CST

[drkavarga]

RoboGM1 kicked most of our asses with a team on autopilot and even though they’re not a human GM they deserve at least nomination for this at minimum.

[garbageman]

I'm going to give a nod to Mike Lowry here, because bah god could he use the points. The Heat, deep in tax trouble and coming off a disappointing season where they did not play up to their player's potentials, doubled down, improved their team, said "SCREW THE TAX", and coasted to a 50 win season and the 4th seed in the Omega Conference with a team that has a real chance to go deep in the playoffs. Other GMs would have sold their expensive guys for points to get out of the tax, but the market wasn't there. Will it be a bad move in a few seasons? Time will tell (and yeah, it probably will be regrettable), but in the vacuum that is S64, I'm gonna give ML the nod here.

[LazyTitanSmash]

K-100

He took a team deep into tax hell, and made the playoffs by picking up everyone else discarded players. He also tried to figure out interesting trades at the trade deadline. I always appreciate out-of-the-box trade ideas.

[pennpanther1]

garbageman

Garbageman has definitely earned the title of "League's Best GM" so it should not be a surprise he took a 37 win team last season and transformed them into a 63 win monster overnight but I just want to give him his props. He traded for Ken Dirks and Charles Jarrett in the offseason and added Teddy Dizon from the Cleveland Cavaliers in an under-the-radar move at the trade deadline. These are the kind of moves contenders make and garbageman is not afraid to make a splash or two when he senses the opportunity to strike. The Los Angeles Lakers are still the favorite to win the title but garbageman's Bulls are going to make them really have to earn it this postseason.

[greepleairport]

There are so many worthy nominees this year, some named above and some not, so many GMs who should be proud of their accomplishments and contributions to the league...but let's be honest.

None of it happens without @MexicanMamba .

The commish has led us all through another season of PBSL, running an all time great team that has yet to payoff. Iykyk, but that is an absolute motivation-killer in PBSL, and yet Mamba has trucked on with the best team in the league, built over seasons and real life years of hard work and dedication, and by god it's set to payoff with his 2nd 'ship.

We all feel sorry for whoever plays the Lakers in the playoffs, but I empathize with Mamba's agony every playoff sim until the final win is his. (Will the injury bug bite again?) Should I be lucky enough to go all the way to the finals, I'll do anything I can to ensure I'm not swept by Mamba again. But if he beats me, even disrespectfully sweeps me, I'll take it on the chin and congratulate the man who has had the trophy coming for quite some time now, in the era of Safi.

[MexicanMamba]

It probably doesn't feel like it right now after a disappointing round 1, but I'm nominating Black Superman himself, Nate.

Things didn't quite turn out how he envisioned, but he legit made all the right moves this off-season/season. He got Blakeney in a straight up swap. He signed Parris to a min. He got quality bench rotation players in free agency. He traded for Krebs at the deadline to beef up a perceived weak spot.

All these are A moves and ones that are worth acknowledging.

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[K-100]

Sometimes less is more.

@SuperDog's GM reign is Exhibit A.

SuperDog resigned Gary Rockwell to a supermax, did not take accept any junk contracts, and most importantly kept the Kings under the tax apron by a whisker. They stayed the course, missed the playoffs, and will end up adding another budding star in what many PBSL pundits consider the deepest draft in over a decade. Do I expect SuperDog to suddenly become more involved next season? Probably not. But in terms of managing a team with little to no expectations of any success, the Sacramento Kings understood the assignment.