With Raptors in transition, President/GM Bryan Colangelo finds his job status on unsteady ground

Colangelo's contract has a team option for next season with the Raptors, but it may be declined if the team heads in a complete rebuilding mode I wrote back a few weeks ago that the Toronto Raptors were pursuing Phil Jackson for team president, a new role for the title-winning head coach. But now, with current president and general manager Bryan Colangelo facing a team option to determine his future role with the Raptors, the franchise--out of the playoffs for the last five seasons and 34-38 in the 2012-13 campaign--has a choice to make: Either keep Colangelo around and risk the continuing of futility or cut him loose, go all-out for Jackson, and drum up some more interest in the team if not improve it significantly. As Frank Zicarelli of the Toronto Sun notes (note: In the column, he refers to the Nets as being from "New Jersey" still, not Brooklyn. Newspapers, I tell ya), the new president of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (the parent company of...