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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Former Toronto Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo was the NBA Executive of the Year in 2007. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Former NBA general manager Bryan Colangelo admitted on Friday that his team tried to tank games in order to get a better draft pick.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colangelo made the comment at the\u00A0Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. He\u00A0says the tanking occurred in the lockout-shortened season of 2011-12, when he was the general manager of the Toronto Raptors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colangelo, who was also the GM for the Phoenix Suns for 11 years, left the Raptors as GM and president last summer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Raptors finished that lockout-shortened season 23-43 under coach Dwane Casey.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u00A0\"Admittedly, I will say I tried to tank a few years ago,\" Colangelo said, via ESPN.com's Jeff Goodman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The team ended up selecting guard Terrence Ross with the eighth overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft.\n&lt;strong&gt;GOLLIVER AND MAHONEY:\u00A0Give And Go: Stretch-run\u00A0storylines&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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