Ebook USA Basketball Men’s Olympic Team Coaching Staff Profiles
Jerry Colangelo was named Managing Director of the USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team program on April 27, 2005. Under his skilled hand, USA Basketball's Senior National Team program has compiled a striking 23-1 overall mark, while winning gold at the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship and qualifying the U.S. men for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and finishing with the bronze medal and an 8-1 record at the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
Throughout his storied career as a sports executive, he has succeeded with a unique combination of know-how both on the basketball court and on the business side of the operation. That savvy and experience is what makes him one of the top executives in professional sports.
Colangelo, who has been the face of the NBA Phoenix Suns franchise since their inaugural season in 1968, recently unveiled a plan for the Suns future that included the sale of the team for an NBA record $401 million. Colangelo remained
CEO and Chairman until the sale of the team was completed in June 2007, and will retain the title of chairman for at least another five years.
Colangelo’s impact on the sports scene in Phoenix and the game of basketball has been so great he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in April 2004 andwas enshrined on Sept. 10, 2004 in Springfield, Mass., the
birthplace of basketball.
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