Editing Jerry Colangelo (section)

{{Short description|American basketball player, coach, executive}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| image = colangelo.jpg
| caption = Colangelo in 2010
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|11|20}}
| birth_place = [[Chicago Heights, Illinois]], U.S.
| high_school = [[Bloom High School|Bloom Township]]<br />(Chicago Heights, Illinois)
| college = [[Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball|Illinois]] (1960–1962)
| career_position = [[Guard (basketball)|Guard]]
| career_number = 23
| cyears1 = {{nbay|1970|start}}, {{nbay|1972|full=y}}
| cteam1 = [[Phoenix Suns]]
| highlights = 
* [[Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award]] (2000)
'''As player:'''
* 2× Big Ten honorable mention (1961, 1962)
* No. 23 jersey [[Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball#Honored jerseys|honored by Illinois Fighting Illini]]
'''As executive:'''
* 4× [[NBA Executive of the Year]] ({{nbay|1976|end}}, {{nbay|1981|end}}, {{nbay|1989|end}}, {{nbay|1993|end}})
| medaltemplates = <!--removed Olympic medal templates where not a player-->
{{MedalSport|Managing Director for {{USA}} }}
{{MedalSport|[[United States men's national basketball team|men's national basketball team]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIBA World Championship]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2010 FIBA World Championship|2010 Turkey]]|[[2010 United States men's FIBA World Championship team|Team]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup|2014 Spain]] | [[2014 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team|Team]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2006 FIBA World Championship|2006 Japan]]|[[2006 FIBA World Championship|Team]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIBA Americas Championship]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2007 FIBA Americas Championship|2007 Las Vegas]]|[[2007 FIBA Americas Championship|Team]]}}
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'''Jerry Colangelo''' (born November 20, 1939<ref>{{Cite book|last=Blevins|first=Dave|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7CnkH2HIsQC&q=Jerry+Colangelo+born+November+20%2C+1939&pg=PA189|title=The Sports Hall of Fame Encyclopedia: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Soccer|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2011|isbn=9781461673705|pages=189}}</ref>) is an American businessman and sports executive. He formerly owned the [[Phoenix Suns]] of the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]], the [[Phoenix Mercury]] of the [[WNBA]], the [[Arizona Sandsharks]] of the [[Continental Indoor Soccer League]], the [[Arizona Rattlers]] of the [[Arena Football League (1987–2008)|Arena Football League]], and the [[Arizona Diamondbacks]] of [[Major League Baseball]]. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the original [[Winnipeg Jets (1972–96)|Winnipeg Jets]] team in the [[National Hockey League|NHL]] to [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] to become the [[Phoenix Coyotes]] (later renamed to the [[Arizona Coyotes]]). In 2014, [[Grand Canyon University]] renamed its Christian based school of business after Jerry Colangelo, replacing [[Ken Blanchard]]'s namesake.<ref name="PhxBizJournal">{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2014/09/25/grand-canyon-university-names-business-school.html |title=Grand Canyon University names business school after Jerry Colangelo |newspaper=Phoenix Business Journal |access-date=September 25, 2014 }}</ref> From December 2015 to April 2016, Colangelo served as chairman of basketball operations for the [[Philadelphia 76ers]], before serving as a special advisor to the team until December 2018.

He became the youngest general manager in professional sports in 1968 after being hired to that position by the [[Phoenix Suns]]. He holds the distinction of the second-longest tenure running an NBA franchise, exceeded only by that of [[Red Auerbach]] of the [[Boston Celtics]].<ref name="niashof">{{cite web |url=http://www.niashf.org/inductees/jerry-colangelo-2/ |title=Jerry Colangelo |publisher=National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame |access-date=September 14, 2014 |archive-date=September 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915030017/http://www.niashf.org/inductees/jerry-colangelo-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=4707157 |title=Colangelo to chair Hall of Fame |agency=Associated Press |publisher=ESPN|date=December 2, 2009}}</ref> Colangelo also serves as Chairman of the [[National Italian American Foundation]] (NIAF), a nonprofit nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes [[Italian American|Italian-American]] culture and heritage.