Colangelo described casino magnate Steve Wynn's eponymous hotel on the Strip as USA Basketball's home.
Kerr and Sarver met with Colangelo, and a deal was in place four weeks later.
"My plan is to give Deron a call and tell him exactly what took place, " Colangelo said.
Colangelo said he would talk to Williams, a fellow University of Illinois product.
Yet Colangelo knew he had to build a winning team quickly in order to get fans interested in his new team.
But the team's managing director Jerry Colangelo and head coach Mike Krzyzewski are confident the current squad will perform better than the team that went to Athens.
"I felt the culture certainly needed to change, " said Colangelo.
Colangelo was quoted in Saturday's Daily News of New York as saying that the Brooklyn Nets point guard "was not in the best shape" and "a little overweight" last summer.
While there has been speculation that Williams' problems were caused by playing year-round, Colangelo said U.S. officials pay special attention to the health of their superstar players in the summer.
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a New York-based lawyer who represents several former detainees from Bahrain said the government in that nation released the former prisoners immediately after they were repatriated because of a lack of evidence.
"I said a lot of things which basically said, look, our players are better off with us, we take care of our players, they're important assets, and on and on and on, " Colangelo said.
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