NEW YORK, May 16 (UPI) -- The NBA announced Wednesday that Larry Bird, president of basketball operations for the Indiana Pacers, had been named the league's executive of the year.
Bird became the first person to win the NBA's player of the year, coach of the year and executive of the year honors. Red Auerbach, Frank Layden and Pat Riley have been the only others to be named both coach and executive of the year.