![]() ![]() ![]() On Tuesday, May 29, I contacted the Sixers to ask about the seemingly linked nature of all five accounts. When I asked whether he had discussed my inquiry with anyone else in the organization that afternoon, he said that he had spoken to only one person: Colangelo. He said that Colangelo denied any knowledge of the Eric jr account. He confirmed that one of the accounts did, in fact, belong to Colangelo. Later that day, the Sixers rep called back. Since I contacted the Sixers, Still Balling has unfollowed 37 accounts with ties to Colangelo, including several of his son’s college basketball teammates, a former coach from his son’s high school, and an account that shares the same name as the agent Warren LeGarie, who has represented Colangelo in the past. The Still Balling account, which had been tweeting daily, has not posted since the morning of the 22nd (I had already been following Still Balling with an anonymous account of my own, which allowed me to see activity after it went private). That afternoon, within hours of the call, all three of the accounts I hadn’t discussed with the team switched from public to private, effectively taking them offline-including one (HonestAbe) that hadn’t been active since December. Sixers to Investigate Bryan Colangelo’s Connections to Twitter Accounts On a follow-up call that day, Philadelphia’s media representative told me that he would ask Colangelo whether he had any information about the two accounts. On Tuesday, May 22, I emailed the Sixers and shared the names of two of the accounts, phila1234567 and Eric jr (I did not disclose our suspicions about the other three accounts, one of which, Still Balling, had been active earlier that day I did this to see whether the partial disclosure would trigger any changes to the other accounts). ![]() Of those, one was active between April 2016 and May 2017 (its account name is Eric jr, and its handle is two were active within the past five months (HonestAbe / and Enoughunkownsources / and one was posting several times a day (Still Balling / and as recently as last week. The five accounts pinpointed by the unnamed source included one that followed media members, Sixers employees, and NBA agents but never tweets (its handle is and it has no account name), and four that have posted tweets or replied to other users. Disclose nonpublic medical information about Okafor and gossip about Embiid and Fultz to members of the national and Philadelphia media.1 overall pick that would become Markelle Fultz Telegraph the 2017 trade in which the Sixers acquired the no.Publicly debate the decisions of his own coaching staff, as well as critique former Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie and Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri.Criticize NBA players, including Joel Embiid, Jahlil Okafor, and Nerlens Noel.Since then, we have scrutinized and archived those accounts in an attempt to verify the source’s claims that the longtime NBA executive has been using them as a platform to: In February, The Ringer received an anonymous tip that Bryan Colangelo, the Philadelphia 76ers’ president of basketball operations, had been secretly operating five Twitter accounts. Update, May 30: The Philadelphia 76ers announced that they are investigating The Ringer’s report linking several Twitter accounts to president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo. His wife, Barbara Bottini, admitted to establishing and operating a handful of anonymous Twitter accounts that were critical of players and other league executives and released sensitive team information, though an investigation by an outside law firm deemed Colangelo to be source of her information, an assertion that Colangelo disputes. Update, June 7: Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations and general manager Bryan Colangelo has resigned from the team. ![]()
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