Jerry Colangelo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jerry Colangelo

American basketball player, coach, executive

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1939

Place of Birth: Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States

Profession: businessperson, entrepreneur, basketball player, basketball coach, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Jerry Colangelo

  • Jerry Colangelo (born November 20, 1939) is an American businessman and sports executive.
  • 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 namesake.
  • From December 2015 to April 2016, Colangelo served as Chairman of Basketball Operations for the Philadelphia 76ers, before serving as a special adviser to the team until December 2018. 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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