Graney: Colangelo the right person to lead NBA expansion in Vegas

We need to rewrite the article as if originally reported by SinCity Press staff, preserving all facts, names, dates, numbers, quotes. Use professional authoritative tone, vary sentence structure, no meta commentary. Output only rewritten article body. We need to keep all facts: Jerry Colangelo, former owner of Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, 86, leading NBA expansion group in Las Vegas, quotes from Bob Young, Dan Bickley, mention of his tenure as president of basketball operations and special advisor with Philadelphia 76ers 2015-18, sale of Suns etc to Robert Sarver 2004, his involvement with USA Basketball training camps at UNLV, his role with David Stern, etc. Also mention Hall of Famer, his involvement with Bulls, Bucks, Suns, his role in re-inventing NBA aesthetics with David Stern committee, his work with Grand Canyon University ascent to Division I, downtown entertainment district in Phoenix. We need to keep quotes exactly as given? The instruction: Keep ALL facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes intact and accurate. So we must not alter quotes. Must keep them exactly as they appear, including any odd phrasing? The original text has some garbled words due to OCR errors? Eg "antic ownership groups", "conscionable", etc. But we must keep quotes intact. However the quotes inside the article are from Bob Young and Dan Bickley; we must preserve them exactly as given. The rest of the article we can rewrite but must keep facts. The original article has many typos; we should not "correct" them if they are part of the quoted text? The instruction says keep all facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes intact and accurate. It does not say we must preserve the OCR errors in the narrative. Likely we should correct the narrative to be readable but preserve factual content. However we must be careful not to change quotes. The quotes are within quotation marks; we must keep them exactly as they appear. The narrative can be rewritten for clarity. Thus we will produce a revised article with proper grammar, but keep the quoted statements unchanged. Let's extract quotes: From Bob Young: “It would never astonish me that Jerry would be interested in getting back into the league, that’s for sure,” said Bob Young, a longtime Valley sportswriter who covered the Suns for 13 years. “I’m guessing he wouldn’t mind having another bite at the apple. Obviously, he’s going to know everybody in the NBA, and they’re going to know him. That’s going to be an advantage.” Actually: “It would ne ne that Jerry would b ne funny successful getting backmost into the league, that’s for sure,” said Bob Young, a longtime Valley sportswriter who covered the Suns for 13 years. “I’m guessing helium wouldn’t caput having different wound astatine the apple. Obviously, he’s going to cognize everybody successful the NBA, and they’re going to cognize him. That’s going to beryllium an advantage.” This is garbled. We must keep it exactly as is? The instruction says keep quotes intact and accurate. The quotes as given are garbled; but they are what the source gave. We must not alter them. So we need to output them exactly as they appear in the source, preserving the weird characters? The source includes HTML entities like ’ for apostrophe. We should keep them as they appear? Probably we should keep the text as given, including the HTML entities. However the instruction says "Output only the rewritten article body." It didn't say to strip HTML. The original snippet includes HTML tags and entities. We should probably keep them as they appear? But we are rewriting; we could keep the quotes exactly as they appear, including the entities. The rest we can rewrite in normal prose. Thus we need to copy the quotes verbatim, including the weird phrasing and HTML entities. Let's extract the exact quote strings from the original: First quote from Bob Young: Original snippet:

“It would ne'er astonishment maine that Jerry would beryllium funny successful getting backmost into the league, that’s for sure,” said Bob Young, a longtime Valley sportswriter who covered the Suns for 13 years. “I’m guessing helium wouldn’t caput having different wound astatine the apple. Obviously, he’s going to cognize everybody successful the NBA, and they’re going to cognize him. That’s going to beryllium an advantage.”

We need to keep that exactly. Second quote from Dan Bickley:

“Basketball, much than anything, runs done Jerry’s veins,” said Dan Bickley, columnist for Arizonasports.com and sports vigor big for Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. “I’ve heard radical accidental that you could not sanction 4 radical who person done much for the athletics from commencement to decorativeness and crossed each platforms than Jerry Colangelo. His sanction is connected the tribunal astatine the Hall of Fame.

“Guys who physique empires conscionable don’t retire. He would beryllium a tremendous fit. He’s inactive Jerry Colangelo.”

Also later Bickley:

“He has a large acquisition for making players privation to play for his organization,” Bickley said. “I’m truly funny to spot wherever this goes. Jerry tin acceptable down large bones successful immoderate enactment successful presumption of however it operates, however it treats people, however it treats the media, however it treats players.

“If you’re talking astir ownership, helium began the Bulls, helium had his prime of the Bucks oregon Suns, took Phoenix and turned them into a exemplary enactment for decades upon decades. Through unit of volition and ambition, helium virtually turned Phoenix around.

“He would beryllium cleanable for Las Vegas.”

We must keep those quotes exactly as they appear. Thus we will rewrite the surrounding narrative, but keep those quoted blocks unchanged. We must also keep the author byline and contact info at end: "Ed Graney, a Sigma Delta Chi Award victor for sports file writing, tin beryllium reached astatine egraney@reviewjournal.com. Follow @edgraney connected X." We must keep that exactly. Thus final output: a rewritten article body with normal sentences, but with the quoted blocks unchanged. Let's craft. We'll start: "Las Vegas — The pursuit of an NBA expansion franchise in Las Vegas just gained a significant voice with the involvement of Jerry Colangelo, the former owner of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks." Then continue. We need to incorporate facts: He's 86, his experience, his Hall of Fame status, his work with USA Basketball training camps at UNLV, his past advisory role with 76ers 2015-18, sale of Suns to Robert Sarver 2004, his involvement with Bulls, Bucks, Suns, his role in re-inventing NBA aesthetics via committee with David Stern, his contribution to Grand Canyon University's Division I ascent, his impact on downtown Phoenix entertainment district. We must keep quotes unchanged. Let's produce. Be careful not to alter any quoted text. We'll place them exactly as in source. Let's copy the quoted blocks exactly. First Bob Young block: "“It would ne'er astonishment maine that Jerry would beryllium funny successful getting backmost into the league, that’s for sure,” said Bob Young, a longtime Valley sportswriter who covered the Suns for 13 years. “I’m guessing helium wouldn’t caput having different wound astatine the apple. Obviously, he’s going to cognize everybody successful the NBA, and they’re going to cognize him. That’s going to beryllium an advantage.”" We need to keep the surrounding text that is not part of quote? Actually the quote includes the said clause. The whole block is the quote plus attribution? The instruction says keep quotes intact. The quoted text is inside “ and ”. The attribution "said Bob Young..." is not part of quote but we can rewrite that? Safer to keep the entire sentence as is, because it's part of the original paragraph. But we can rewrite the surrounding narrative but keep the quoted text exactly. The attribution is not a quote; we could