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Colangelo and sold
According to published reports, the Rattlers struggled to stay afloat as a franchise after Colangelo sold the team.
In April 2004, Colangelo sold the Suns, Mercury and Rattlers to an investment group headed by San Diego, California businessman, Tucson, Arizona native Robert Sarver for $ 401 million.
Late in the 2004 baseball season, Colangelo sold his controlling interest in the Arizona Diamondbacks to a group of investors led by Jeff Moorad.

Colangelo and General
* Jerry Colangelo, First Suns General Manager, 1968 – 2004 ; ( Interim ) Head Coach, 1970 & 1972 – 1973
For his new baseball club, Colangelo hired Joe Garagiola, Jr. as General Manager.
This, coupled with the Raptors entering the break placed 14th in the conference and 13 games under. 500, Toronto General Manager Bryan Colangelo looked to move O ' Neal to bring in a wing player and free up the salary space.
This gave the Raptors fans and management a glimpse of his abilities and in July 2006, Parker was officially signed by Raptors General Manager Bryan Colangelo as a free agent as part of a massive revamp of the 2006 – 07 Toronto team.

Colangelo and Diamondbacks
From the beginning, Colangelo wanted to market the Diamondbacks to a statewide fan base and not limit fan appeal to Phoenix and its suburbs.
Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".
Colangelo fired Showalter after a relatively disappointing 2000 season, and replaced him with Bob Brenly, the former Giants catcher and coach, who had up to that point been working as a color analyst on Diamondbacks television broadcasts.
By this time Colangelo and the other partners were embroiled in a dispute over the financial health and direction of the Diamondbacks ( and notably including over $ 150 million in deferred compensation to many players who were key members of the 2001 World Series winning team and others ).
Showalter and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner did not agree to a contract extension, so Colangelo quickly hired Showalter as future manager of the Diamondbacks.
One of the first people to congratulate Moreno after the news was Diamondbacks ' owner Jerry Colangelo, a personal friend who declared it a good opportunity for Moreno.
These extra expenses, combined with the Diamondbacks and their fellow expansion franchise, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, not being allowed to share in the national MLB revenue for their first five years of operations, left the Diamondbacks in a less-than-desirable financial situation, which would come back to haunt team founder and managing partner Jerry Colangelo and his group later on.
Jerry Colangelo, future owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Phoenix Suns, was the ace of that Bloom High School staff.
To help ensure that KAZT would be a high-quality station that would " do some good for Arizona ", the Londen family put together an advisory board of notable Arizonans, including Governor Jane Dee Hull, U. S. Representative Bob Stump, prominent local auto dealer Lou Grubb, Jerry Colangelo of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, and Michael Bidwill of the Arizona Cardinals.

Colangelo and group
In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.
Colangelo put together a group that bought the Suns in late 1987, in the wake of the drug scandal.
In 1989, Colangelo was an essential part of the group that planned to build America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ), providing financial backing.
Jerry Colangelo is part of an investment group planning development in Buckeye, Arizona.

Colangelo and who
Born the son of a factory worker who could not afford a piano, he practiced on a dummy keyboard devised by his uncle, pianist Nicholas Colangelo, until he found a broken-down instrument in a dance hall.

Colangelo and were
It also featured discrete circuit construction, no integrated circuits were incorporated in order to keep the signal pure. Archetype of American highend, highpower amplifier. Design credit: Thomas P. Colangelo
At the time, freshmen were not allowed to play on the varsity basketball team, but as a sophomore he replaced the just-graduated Jerry Colangelo.

Colangelo and involved
Colangelo has been involved in many professional sports teams in Arizona.
Colangelo was also involved in bringing the National Hockey League ( NHL ) to Arizona, transferring the Winnipeg Jets to the area as the Phoenix Coyotes in 1996.

Colangelo and team
This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.
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.
Colangelo was an assistant coach of the Chicago Bulls basketball team.
Burke and Gluckstern originally planned to move the team to Minnesota ( which had lost the North Stars to Dallas in 1993 ), but eventually reached an agreement with Phoenix businessman Jerry Colangelo that would see the team move to Arizona and become the Phoenix Coyotes.

Colangelo and .
Two years before their first opening day, Colangelo hired Buck Showalter, the American League Manager of the Year in 1994 with the New York Yankees.
Colangelo ’ s willingness to go into debt and acquire players through free agency had led to one of the quickest free falls in major sports history.
Jerry Colangelo ( born November 20, 1939 ), is an American businessman and sports executive.
Colangelo also serves as Chairman of the National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF ), a nonprofit nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes Italian American culture and heritage.
Colangelo has been known for a no-nonsense ownership style.
Colangelo was born and raised in Chicago Heights, Illinois where he played basketball and baseball for Bloom Township High School.
In his autobiography, How You Play the Game, Colangelo tells of working after graduating college at the House of Charles, a tuxedo rental shop in Chicago Heights.
Colangelo had two stints as head coach during that decade, compiling a record of 59 wins and 60 losses.
In 1992, Colangelo traded Jeff Hornacek, Tim Perry, and Andrew Lang to the Philadelphia 76ers for Charles Barkley.
Barkley's relationship with Colangelo, however, grew sour over the years, and in 1996, he was traded to the Houston Rockets.
Colangelo declared himself a born-again Christian, a reason that he credits for his change of heart about Barkley.
While in Chicago for a Suns game, Colangelo attended a Chicago Cubs baseball game at Wrigley Field.

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