The Godfather

The Dream Team Tapes

iHeartPodcasts and Diversion

History, Basketball, Sports

4.4 • 553 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

With USA Basketball in shambles, they turn to "The Godfather," Jerry Colangelo, who proved to be instrumental in reviving the program. There are other "Great Men" with courage, intellect, and leadership that made The Redeem Team great, including of course Mike Krzyzewski, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James, but the first Great Man to come along and change the course of USA basketball's history was Jerry Colangelo. Colangelo has owned, general managed, and coached the Phoenix Suns basketball team, he was Chairman of Basketball Operations for the Philadelphia 76ers, he owned the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Arizona Rattlers of the Indoor Football League, he was instrumental in relocating the Winnipeg Jets hockey team to become the Phoenix Coyotes, he built a basketball program at Grand Canyon University, and he's been president of the NBA Board of Governors. And that's not even the most interesting part of his bio. This episode also includes stories and interviews with Portland Trailblazer and Redeem Teamer Carmelo Anthony, Redeem Teamer and now assistant coach for the LA Lakers Jason Kidd, NBA champion and Redeem Teamer Deron Williams, and winningest coach in NBA history Phil Jackson, among others.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.7	The Dream Team tapes season two.
0:08.7	Kobe, LeBron, and the Redeem team is a production of diversion podcasts,
0:13.9	an association with IHeart Radio.
0:26.9	Thank you. Diversion Podcasts.
0:38.9	The players selected for the honor of representing the United States in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are Kobe Bryant. We look forward to this for a while
0:41.8	To be in this position now
0:43.3	To be able to represent our country
0:44.7	It's special
0:46.5	Special
0:47.3	LeBron James
0:49.9	We look for the opportunity
0:51.8	To rekind on on that flame
0:52.9	On being the best in the world
0:53.9	I guess the redeemed team is right We're the best team in the world We're-like music in the background?
1:28.0	I'm Jack McCallum, and we're here in episode four of Kobe, LeBron, and the Redeemed Team
1:34.1	to talk about a godfather figure who did a Humpty Dumpty Repair Act
1:39.4	on an American basketball program that had fallen on hard times.
1:44.9	Now, there are many reasons why the redeemed team became the redeemed team, but one of the
1:49.6	big ones is Jerry Calangelo, the Godfather, and that's the title of episode four.
1:56.0	My co-host is Jay Adande, who did the great podcast Beyond the Last Dance.
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