Did an NBA GM secretly operate multiple Twitter accounts?

[tk13]

This might be the most talked about story in sports tomorrow. It's too long to post the whole thing but it's a great read. It theorizes that Philadelphia 76ers GM Bryan Colangelo was secretly running Twitter accounts that ripped his predecessor, current players, and even his coaching staff. This wasn't some low level employee... it was the GM. Do other GMs do this? Is one of you actually Brett Veach?

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/5/29/17406750/bryan-colangelo-philadelphia-76ers-twitter-joel-embiid-anonymous-markelle-fultz

The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account

By Ben Detrick May 29, 2018, 9:08pm EDT

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. 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:

- Criticize NBA players, including Joel Embiid, Jahlil Okafor, and Nerlens Noel
- 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
- Telegraph the 2017 trade in which the Sixers acquired the no. 1 overall pick that would become Markelle Fultz
- Disclose nonpublic medical information about Okafor and gossip about Embiid and Fultz to members of the national and Philadelphia media

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[pugsnotdrugs19]

Crazy stuff.

I know Veach has a twitter account with his actual name, but it’s private and only has 1 follower.

[GloucesterChief]

If he disclosed non-public medical information, that is going to cost him his job.

[hometeam]

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[Rain Man]

Crazy stuff.

I know Veach has a twitter account with his actual name, but it’s private and only has 1 follower.

Who's the follower?

[ChiefAshhole1056]

Very thorough and well done. I recommend you reading it if you have some free time, there is really is some bizzare stuff in there.

[Tribal Warfare]

Crazy stuff.

I know Veach has a twitter account with his actual name, but it’s private and only has 1 follower.


He has 2 one public and the private account

[ChiliConCarnage]

At first, I thought it'd be some subordanite but once you've read it all it has to be him.

[loochy]

OH MY GOD

[Mecca]

Well that's one way to try to express your true feelings.

[mcaj22]

The one is obviously his dad.

[Amnorix]

Read this last night. Overwhelmingly well done. Great piece of investigative journalism. He's gonna get fired.

[big nasty kcnut]

He's fucked.

[pugsnotdrugs19]

Who's the follower?

Can’t see it because he is private.

[Spott]

Who's the follower?

@scottpioli

[HemiEd]

NBA? I remember something about it but can't remember any details.

[Pennywise]

I thought Kotter was a schoolmarm.

[UChieffyBugger]

Yep, that's my sixers alright :D . To be honest, this could actually be a blessing in disguise cause imo BC was an average GM living on past glories and the resume of his father, and we were always gonna be at a disadvantage compared to our enemies that our the Boston Celtics as they have a great GM in Danny Ainge. Now we can get someone better and hopefully close the gap between our GM and the Celtics guy. EX Cavs GM David Griffin is the name folks are talking about. Especially as he apparently has a good relationship with Lebron who is heavily linked with joining the Sixers.

[SuperChief]

What a crazy story. Good journo work, too. This is where we are - 2018. Drink it up lol

[NWTF]

This guys fucked. After reading the report Im convinced it was him. Good catch by the initial group that spotted all those consistencies in those accounts.

[CaliforniaChief]

He only used the other four accounts when under the influence of Ambien, though.

[WhawhaWhat]

I have a feeling this is more common than we think. Across all businesses.

[BWillie]

How do they know for sure this is him? Could have been a kid and family member.

[tk13]

I have a feeling this is more common than we think. Across all businesses.

I would not be surprised at all. Business, sports, politics. The Internet allows people to pretend to be someone else and manipulate the conversation.

[Miles]

Latest reddit theory is it was his wife.

[Rams Fan]

Scott Pioli probably had dozens of accounts.

[Hoover]

Actually of the five Twitter account two have have the same last two digits of his cell and three others his wife’s. Which means it’s all him. Unreal.

[Buehler445]

Lebatard called it intergallactically stupid. Pretty accurate description.

[hometeam]

whats the over under on days until fired?

[BryanBusby]

Didn't Carl write on the Chiefs site under the penname of Rufus Dawes?

[tk13]

Didn't Carl write on the Chiefs site under the penname of Rufus Dawes?

I think that a lot of people believed that was Bob Moore. We'll never really know.

[NWTF]

I have a feeling this is more common than we think. Across all businesses.

No doubt but 99% of people are smart enough not to follow their sons basketball coach, their real estate agent, etc, with their burner accounts.

Thats what I couldnt believe, that he actually followed his close friends and business associates with his burner accounts. Even retweeting pictures of himself from one of them. Once The Ringer got the tip it wasnt that hard to connect the dots when every follower from every account traced back to him in some way.

[Buehler445]

whats the over under on days until fired?

I wouldn’t take the over if it was 3 seconds.

Dude is done.

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

I think that a lot of people believed that was Bob Moore. We'll never really know.

I have run into Bob Moore. Good man.

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Didn't Carl write on the Chiefs site under the penname of Rufus Dawes?

Rufus Dawes fought in the Iron Brigade during the Civil War. Man got around.

[wazu]

Didn't Carl write on the Chiefs site under the penname of Rufus Dawes?

I don’t think Carl directly wrote, but it was his propaganda machine. Man that was bizarre.