Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo is an American businessman and sports executive with the Philadelphia 76ers
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| Philadelphia 76ers | |
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| Position | Special Adviser |
| League | NBA |
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November 20, 1939 Chicago Heights, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
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| High school |
Bloom Township (Chicago Heights, Illinois) |
| College | Illinois (1960–1962) |
| Position | Guard |
| Number | 23 |
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| 1970, 1972–1974 | Phoenix Suns |
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| Basketball Hall of Fame | |
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Jerry Colangelo (born November 20, 1939) is an American businessman and sports executive who currently serves as a special adviser to the Philadelphia 76ers. He formerly owned the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the original Winnipeg Jets team in the NHL to Phoenix to become the Phoenix Coyotes (now the Arizona Coyotes). In 2014, Grand Canyon University renamed its Christian based school of business after Jerry Colangelo, replacing Ken Blanchard's name sake.
He became the youngest general manager in professional sports in 1968 after being hired as general manager for the Phoenix Suns. He has the second longest tenure running the same NBA franchise, exceeded only by Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics.
In the summer of 2005, Colangelo was named director of USA Basketball whose team represented the United States in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 FIBA World Championship. Since 2009, he has served as Chairman of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Colangelo also serves as Chairman of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), a nonprofit nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes Italian American culture and heritage.
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