Colangelo named NBA Executive of the Year

05.14.2007

St. Louis, MO (Basketball News) - Toronto Raptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo was named NBA Executive of the Year on Monday.

After 15 years in Phoenix, the 41-year old Colangelo joined the Raptors in 2006 and began building a playoff contender around star forward Chris Bosh.

Under Colangelo’s first full season at the helm, Toronto won its first Atlantic Division title, earned home court advantage in the playoffs for the first time in team history and won a franchise record-tying 47 wins, a 20-win improvement over the 2005-06 season.

Colangelo also won the honor in 2004-05 after helping the Phoenix Suns to the third-greatest turnaround in NBA history.

Colangelo received 20 of the 45 votes from his fellow executives to win the award. Houston Rockets general manager Carroll Dawson, who received nine votes, finished second.

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