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Bryan Colangelo named Philadelphia 76ers president

By John Buhler

TORONTO, ON - APRIL 22: Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo speaks during the season-ending media conference Monday April 22, 2013 at the Air Canada Centre. (Tara Walton/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
TORONTO, ON - APRIL 22: Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo speaks during the season-ending media conference Monday April 22, 2013 at the Air Canada Centre. (Tara Walton/Toronto Star via Getty Images) /
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Bryan Colangelo has been hired by the Philadelphia 76ers as their next president of basketball operations by his father Jerry Colangelo Sunday afternoon.

According to Sixers.com’s Brian Seltzer, the Philadelphia 76ers have hired former NBA general manager Bryan Colangelo as their next president of basketball operations Sunday. Colangelo is the son of legendary NBA executive Jerry Colangelo who has had a role with the team since the holiday season.

The 76ers were dealt a strange twist in their tanking developments as a franchise when former general manager and the mastermind behind the massive rebuild undertaking in Philadelphia Sam Hinkie abruptly resigned from his post last week via a 13-page resignation letter that went viral.

Seltzer points out that the elder Colangelo will still stay on as a special advisor to the club after ‘relinquishing‘ his chairman of basketball operations after his son’s hiring.

By coming to Philadelphia, this now marks the third high-profile NBA job that the younger Colangelo has had to date. He built has career as an NBA executive for the Phoenix Suns while his father owned the franchise. Colangelo worked in the Phoenix front office for 15 years, being the general manager for 11 of them. The Suns were a strong Western Conference team during Colangelo’s tenure running the franchise.

When the elder Colangelo sold the Suns to Robert Sarver in 2004, it was only a matter of time before the younger Colangelo would also leave the Valley of the Sun. The younger Colangelo resigned from being the Suns general manager in 2006 to take over the struggling Toronto Raptors. Colangelo was the Raptors general manager from 2006 to 2013, winning NBA Executive of the Year in 2007.

Colangelo inherits an absolute mess in Philadelphia, but having countless years of NBA front office experience and the endorsement of his father and 76ers ownership, he’s probably the guy Philadelphia wanted all along to run the franchise once things started to go sideways with Hinkie earlier this season.

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