Boston Celtics General Manager Brad Stevens took home a decisive Executive of the Year award earlier this week, an announcement that should have surprised few. The star coach-turned-background director pivoted from Jayson Tatum's Achilles tear about as well as anyone could have imagined, piloting the Celtics to a fifth-consecutive 50+ win season and earning the respect from his league-wide peers. Absent from the finalist tally was Washington Wizards GM Will Dawkins , and as good of a job he's done this season and over the course of his D.C. tenure, that can't have shocked many fans. The standard for upstart winners has been set, and the man who's work manifested in a 65-loss squad simply won't win any outward support until his win-loss results start dramatically shifting. Brad Stevens received 11 first-place votes. Pistons’ Trajan Langdon received six first-place votes, but Hawks’ Onsi Saleh finished second in the voting for Executive of the Year. NBA executives voted for this award, not the media.…