The Sixers announced in a press release this morning that they’ve launched an independent investigation into allegations that president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo may have revealed private team information and criticized 76ers players using anonymous Twitter accounts.
“An online media outlet filed a story linking multiple social media accounts to 76ers President of Basketball Operations Bryan Colangelo,” the Sixers’ statement reads. “The allegations are serious and we have commenced an independent investigation into the matter. We will report the results of that investigation as soon as it is concluded.”
As we detailed late last night, a fascinating report from Ben Detrick of The Ringer links a handful of “burner” Twitter accounts to one another and suggests that Colangelo may be connected to them. Four of those five accounts sent tweets criticizing current and former Sixers players, defending Colangelo, and seemingly revealing unreported information about the franchise.
Colangelo claimed ownership for one of the five accounts, which never published any tweets, but has denied any knowledge of the others. Joel Embiid, the subject of several negative tweets from those anonymous accounts, initially seemed upset when the story broke, but later told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that he believes Colangelo and posted the following tweet late on Tuesday night: “Fun night on Twitter lmao.. All jokes asides I don’t believe the story. That would just be insane.”
For more details on one of the more bizarre stories of the NBA season, be sure to check out our post from last night and especially The Ringer’s full report.
He should be fired for the Fultz trade alone. Giving away a top 5 pick next year so he can not draft Tatum. He should be fired for his failure to get anything for either Noel or Okafor. This twitter scandal just further shows his lack of judgement. #ResurectHinke
You know, he could have avoided so much criticism of that trade if he’d drafted Tatum after trading up anyways. The year he’s had would have made him seem like a genius by now.
No one could really foresee what would happen to Fultz this past season however. He was the consensus top player in the draft after all. As a Celtics fan I’m very happy with how things turned out this season and how well Tatum preformed, but no one was expecting that kind of a breakout from him or that Fultz would get the yips and barely play.
I think people thought Tatum would be polished. But no one thought Fultz would be miserable as a rookie. Things can change in a year, though. Fultz will have plenty of opportunities to become the player most thought he’d become.
The knock on Tatum going in was a less athletic Carmelo-type. His 3pt shooting was way better than anyone would have guessed. Fultz was a D-wade type talent coming into thedraft. He was the clear #1 prospect. Maybe teams will do more thorough psyche evals now. I mean almost as bad as Royce White and his flying issues.
Just the most bizarre situation ever in one of the most important offseasons in franchise history. This can’t help their Lebron recruiting efforts
It would if they hired Griffin to replace Colangelo.
Good idea
I would rather them bring Hinkie back. A big ole middle finger to the league
I’ve been thinking Griffin would be good too.
A few lessons learned: Josh Harris and the NBA had no cajones when they teamed up with Colangelo Sr. to oust Hinkie and are now left with egg on their face; nepotism tends to bite you back in the rear; if the Sixers want a real chance at LeBron they better oust him quick and get a real trusted GM in their; and their attempt to cover this with the Brown extension announcement didn’t work at all… Firestorm!
Trust The Process
NBA forced the Colangelos on the Sixers, remember that
The most interesting part of this story to me is that Detrick was handed this information. He didn’t uncover it on his own. I’d be willing to bet Hinkie was his source… what a great FU from him if that’s the case.
The unknown source is someone with a lot of technical knowledge, but even he had to be put on the trail.
Great stuff
I’m going to go ahead and buy this story bc it supports my case to fire Coleangelo, and set up a class action lawsuit against the NBA for forcing these two stooges on the 4th largest market in America.