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Every four years since he was tasked with assembling U.S.A. Basketball rosters, Jerry Colangelo has maintained his own quadrennial tradition.
As reliably as the Olympics themselves, Colangelo, as the program’s managing director, emerges on a similar schedule, making the same plea on behalf of the team U.S.A.B. will send to the FIBA World Cup.
“I would like to keep the focus on who is there, not on who’s not there,” Colangelo said in a telephone interview this week.
Because of a format change by FIBA, it has been five years since the sport’s last world championship.