He also made some mistakes, but typically they were cheap gambles, namely Sergio and Rudy. Then there’s the obvious “Oden vs. Durant” controversy, but he was hardly alone in that.

All in all, I think he’s done a very good job as GM, at least in the things that we know about and can evaluate. He might have been an annoying, credit-hawking jerk behind the scenes, but we can’t tell.