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28 Feb, 2013

KTAR in Phoenix interview

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Colangelo speaks about the aspects of hiring a professional head coach for the USA Basketball team:

I think it’s kind of a neutral thing for me because on one hand I do know that there’s a little bit of jealousy involved and I think some organizations’ owners, managers and coaches would feel that someone had an edge if it was an NBA coach who got the opportunity to start spending time with all these players like we do. I can understand that, but it was like that way in ’92, ’96 and 2000 and 2004. Life went on. I do think this, USA basketball is an entity that is on the board controlled by the NCAA and the NBA, and I as chair kind of straddle this whole situation. I can build a strong case for saying different people should get different opportunities and we should kind of move it around a little bit.

23 Jul, 2009

KTAR in Phoenix interview

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Colangelo talks about changes with USA Basketball:

Back in ’04, with the terrible loss in Athens and the lack of real interest on a part of many players to represent their country, we needed to change the culture.  And, when you take over a program, usually you start at the bottom and you build up with a solid foundation, I started at the top as managing director of the men’s team… Everyone wants to play now, I think they got it.  The pipeline is in place, we have to keep it flowing and that’s the excitement for me.