Jerry Colangelo has a long history in basketball. As the first-ever general manager of the Phoenix Suns, Colangelo won four Executive of the Year awards. After an absence from basketball, Colangelo returned to the game as a special advisor to the Philadelphia 76ers. Later in that 2015-16 season, Colangelo’s son Bryan was hired as general manager of the team. Bryan Colangelo, however, agreed to part ways with the team earlier this summer, following the scandal involving several “burner” twitter accounts.
Like his son, Jerry Colangelo will see his time with the 76ers come to an end, he tells Tim Bontemps of the Washington Post:
In discussing the situation, Colangelo termed his own tenure in Philadelphia — with which he served as a special adviser — as over, before clarifying that it is “over at the end of the year.”
A league source confirmed that account. While Colangelo is under contract through the end of this calendar year, and the 76ers will be honoring that contract, it won’t be renewed. It is an awkward ending to what was one of the stranger stories in recent NBA memory.
Jerry Colangelo will continue his work as director of Team USA Basketball until at least 2020, he told Bontemps.
