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USA Basketball's Jerry Colangelo 'Pleased' with Postponement of 2020 Olympics

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The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo are officially postponed to no later than the summer of 2021 amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo supports the decision, as told to The Athletic's Michael Lee.

"Candidly, the fact that the games have been postponed, I'm pleased about that for many, many reasons. I think enough time, hopefully, would've gone by that the fear is gone. Let's start with that. Also, the availability of people will be much stronger if we have this period of time here to prepare.