NBA17.05.2011, 23:37Redazione Sportando - E. Carchia0
Toronto Raptors re-sign with Bryan Colangelo
The President and GM signed a multi-year deal
The Toronto Raptors are staying the course with GM and President Bryan Colangelo.
The team announced today that Colangelo, who came to the club from the Phoenix Suns in February of 2006, has agreed to a multi-year extension.
Colangelo is in New York to participate in the NBA draft lottery and was unavailable for comment until after the event.
In his first full season, Colangelo refashioned the team with nine new players. The Raptors boosted their win total by 20 and won an Atlantic Division championship and the franchise was infused with the prestige of one of the sports industry’s foremost families.
Playoff runs in his first two seasons remain the high-water mark of Colangelo’s tenure but misfortune found the team when pillar forward Jorge Garbajosa suffered a catastrophic leg injury. Last summer, all-time scoring leader Chris Bosh left to become a third wheel with the Miami Heat.
Colangelo has drafted well, landing DeMar DeRozan and Ed Davis as well as leading scorer Andrea Bargnani.
A host of bigger-name players, Shawn Marion, Jermaine O’Neal and Jason Kapono passed through town but Colangelo and his hand-picked coach, Jay Triano, have been unable to return a winner. The Raptors went 20-62 this season and own a 15 per cent chance of landing the first overall choice.
“I am pleased to inform you that Bryan will be staying on as Raptor President.,” CEO Richard Peddie said. “Bryan and the board worked closely to help create a winning plan for the Raptors and today the board gave Bryan their 100 per cent support to continue the rebuilding job he started this year.
“I can tell you that it was a very healthy process that definitely has everyone understanding what it will take to create a winning basketball team.”
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