The Sixers‘ investigation into team president Bryan Colangelo‘s alleged use of burner social media accounts is expected to conclude shortly and several league sources believe he will lose his job, Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Pompey writes that the investigation could wrap up as soon as tomorrow. Due to Game 1 of the NBA Finals taking place tonight, the league did not want the Colangelo investigation to be a distraction, Pompey adds.
On Tuesday, a report from Ben Detrick of The Ringer provided evidence that connected Colangelo to five Twitter accounts that bashed Sixers players and coaches, and disclosed sensitive medical and team information. Colangelo admitted to owning one of the accounts in question but said that the account was used strictly to monitor social media.
Colangelo has unequivocally denied any wrongdoing or tweeting from any of the accounts. Today, Colangelo told John Clark of NBC Sports Philadelphia that he is “fully unaware of anything” pertaining to the messages. Colangelo added that he had “zero’ knowledge of any tweets being sent from those accounts.
During a press conference before Game 1 of the Finals, NBA commissioner Adam Silver revealed that the Sixers hired a New York law firm to oversee the investigation (per Sixers insider Jon Johnson).
Did the Sixers win? on Twitter presented evidence that Colangelo’s wife, Barbara Bottini, could be behind at least three of the accounts. Bottini’s phone number ends with the digits 91, which matches the final two numbers associated with the accounts. Bottini has yet to issue a denial.
As the Sixers prepare for free agency this summer with eyes on several top free agents, Colangelo’s presence could be a hindrance in luring players to Philadelphia. In an earlier report, one unidentified NBA executive said the damage — unless Colangelo is proven explicitly innocent — has been done.
“I think the damage is done,” an unidentified NBA executive told Pompey. “I don’t know if the players can trust him. I think he lost the trust of the players unless it’s proven definitively that it wasn’t him.”
Good he needs to be fired, you can’t keep this guy around not after this stuff happened #TTP #TrustTheProcess
BRING BACK SAM HINKIE
Problem is Hinkie resigned and that manifesto of his
So damn easy to find out if it was him. IP addresses, device attributes, etc. Moron.
It almost seems too obvious to me though. Like on the one hand it’s possible he’d be this stupid, but it’s hard to believe. It’s him more likely than not, but this story is crazy enough that it could have another twist.
But good lord or so many older folks, even some who are considered vastly intelligent in their respective fields, just absolutely incompetent when it comes to technology. I mean christ the man has the money to buy burner phones, and for petes sake OpenVPN is free!
OpenVPN keeps logs.
How about people of his age and the maturity level of trash talking your co-workers anonymously online?
I would expect so much more from a professional of his caliber… sad.
“I think the damage is done,” an unidentified NBA executive told Pompey. “I don’t know if the players can trust him. I think he lost the trust of the players unless it’s proven definitively that it wasn’t him.”
Well other damage is done as well too
Brett Brown is the Coach for the foreseeable future
Ben Simmons fell apart in the Celtics series
The Sixers despite tanking have no real backcourt
Now they want to sign veterans, which is marvelous, but that wasn’t what the Process was all about. It was supposed to draft devise a super hero team and it isn’t
Well I hope the Philadelphia Media is Happy, they have their Super Hero in Ben Simmons and Brett Brown and future early exits from the playoffs!
SMH
Brown is a good coach. Simmons just finished his first year. Cap room to get someone for the backcourt. Top 10 pick in a loaded draft. Free agents interested, with enough for a max contract.
Yeah. Sounds terrible.
Well if it’s such a wonderful job, why does Colangelo apparently want out?
Also, this movie of the Sixers of being a great place to place, they have all kinds of money and everything is wonderful and marvelous has played before and they will have to overpay up to their very last dollar. I mean 23 million dollars for a guy who can’t always get seperatation for the open look…SMH
PS The Sixer Back-court Sux and so does the ‘Warped’ Process
I don’t think you understand fully what the Process was about. You are correct that they tanked in order to draft good young players. After they got their young core they always planned to fill out the roster with a superstar at a position of need. That’s why having young players was so important. It allowed them enough cap space to chase whomever they needed.
Colangelo doesn’t want out, he’s just too stupid to hold on to the job without getting fired.
Stick to talking about the Orioles, you don’t know anything about basketball.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Big Man with the Horn!
Dude you’re out here criticizing a one year deal for JJ Redick lol. They made the playoffs. He played well. He won’t be on the books for next year. You hate Ben Simmons and it makes you biased. You are mad at them for trying to sign a star player. The Warriors added Kevin Durant. You just sound suuuuuper salty and it’s a bad look. That’s why I said stick to the Orioles, you’re embarrassing yourself
David Griffin Time?
That would be a great move for them. I’m a Cavs fan, and it always seemed like he could turn a pile of worthless assets into useful players. He absolutely deserves another job in the league.
He’s competent enough; he made mistakes of overconfidence. He thought he could fix/manage Irving’s desires, and he did not get along with the owner well enough. But these are forgivable and learnable. Griffin woulld be a good hire, great if James follows!
Trust the Process!! Which means be unethical any way possible. That franchise had sold it’s soul to the devil to get good again, now deal with it!
Huh? The Coleangelos were league imposed. This was the leagues foul up, bringing in these clowns. Hinkie would still be swindling the Kings of future picks if he were the GM.
Now we need the Adam Silver story that breaks the truth behind the league forcing the Coleangelos on Philly. Like some email mandating it. Pave the way for Hinkie or Griffin.
Like how do you not get the player nicknamed The Process to take a less than max deal knowing you need 35.? to sign LeBron without making any moves. Basically the 16.xxM that Embiid essentially stole sitting on the bench nursing injuries for 2.5 years. How do you not foresee needing to dump Bayless ahead of time and trade him in a deal with Noel or Jah in anticipation of this offseason?
Bring back Hinkie ASAP.
Really I think Philly can have the brightest future in the league if given the time to grow & they get rid of useless League imposed GM like that clown. But with BS & JE… man the future looks unbelievable. TTP did work far better than I ever expected. Well done Hinkie. You are a genius.