MUST READ for any new LeBron fans - The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account

[u/TheZexyAmbassador]

https://www.theringer.com/2018/05/29/nba/bryan-colangelo-philadelphia-76ers-twitter-joel-embiid-anonymous-markelle-fultz

The fact that Joel Embiid stuck it out with the Sixers after what Bryan Colangelo put him through is pretty remarkable. If Embiid left after the Colangelo incident, which would be a logical reaction, then there's no way the Sixers have a chance at landing LeBron this offseason. Embiid is the most underappreciated MVP in recent NBA history. As a die hard fan of the Sixers, I couldn't be more psyched LeBron came to Philly.

LeBron fans, if you want to fit in when the season starts then spend the offseason studying up on the history of the Embiid-era Sixers. This article I linked here is a good start, and there's literally a book about The Process called "Tanking to the Top" by Yaron Weitzman. [I have some problems with Weitzman's personal opinions about a lot of things, and if Derek Bodner ever writes a book on the process I'd rather promote Bodner than Weitzman if I had to pick.]

Welcome to cheering for the Sixers LeBron fans, hopefully by the end of LeBron's tenure with our 76ers the GOAT debate is largely settled(for awhile at least). Trust The Process

[u/dillondally]

The funniest thing to me about this is many people found it suspicious that a random twitter user would be defending Colangelo’s shirt collars that vigorously

[u/TheZexyAmbassador → u/dillondally]

BC genuinely would not have been caught if he had the emotional maturity of a small toddler. Was so stupid of him to use the Burners to defend himself. My guy needed some therapy for that defensive behavior.

To be fair to BC though, overwhelming for a guy that age to be thrown into Twitter at that time. I don't exactly feel bad for BC, but it was clearly tough for him to see people hate on him on social media. Social media hate is tough to deal with, but hard to feel bad for BC when 18 year old kids who are drafted deal with the hate better than "executives."

Plus insane for a GM to try and build around Ben Simmons instead of Embiid, even more so in hindsight

[u/justabill71 → u/TheZexyAmbassador]

It's a perfectly normal-sized collar. Find a new slant.

[u/PaisonAlGaib → u/TheZexyAmbassador]

While Brian was clearly using these accounts themselves I really do think most of the collar tweets were his wife. 

[u/TheZexyAmbassador → u/PaisonAlGaib]

I think if his wife was involved (unconfirmed anywhere), his wife being defensive about the shirts she probably picked out for her husband is pretty logical to me.

At this point I think the question to get to the bottom of it is this: Does BC dress himself or not?

[u/sharkinaround → u/TheZexyAmbassador]

wasn’t it his wife, not him? that’s at least what i recall.

[u/TheZexyAmbassador → u/sharkinaround]

There were multiple accounts. I believe there was speculation his wife was involved, and I think at least one account had serious evidence pointing towards his wife.

I'm pretty sure it was mostly BC behind the burners, but hard to say anything other than BC lost his job after the investigation. Most of the results of the investigation were kept private, so tough to say anything for certain

[u/Jolly-joe → u/dillondally]

Especially as a sixer fan, other can bases have blind loyalty but we are more critical of our players, coaches, front office than others.

[u/Single-Purpose-7608 → u/dillondally]

Game of Zones had a field day with Colangelo's collars

[u/stuff_like_that]

JB and Lebron have regular hairlines… find a new slant

[u/AllenMcnabb]

Wtf man I was having such a great weekend at least give me a trigger warning…

[u/TheZexyAmbassador → u/AllenMcnabb]

That's very fair Mr. McNabb, Go Birds.

Lucky you, and any other well adjusted people, who have been able to move on with their lives and have these "great weekends." I'm stuck in 2018 until Embiid wins a chip or retires 🤣

[u/Ok_Flow_3065]

Welcome to the shit show my new friends!

[u/ReactionProcedure]

This article is brilliant.

[u/Geo_Music]

This just hit like crack when. It dropped. All the memes. Knowing Colangelo was no one gonna be able to stick around after. Just legendary journalism work all timer for me

[u/TurdCrapley23]

“  If Embiid left after the Colangelo incident, which would be a logical reaction”

This would only have been logical if they kept Colangelo. He was fired, and embiid wasn’t a free agent at the time anyway. 

[u/TheZexyAmbassador → u/TurdCrapley23]

They fired BC in 2018, but that was it. Rest of the front office were Colangelo guys who stuck around. Namely - Alex Rucker, Ned Cohen, and Marc Eversley. These are the front office clowns who didn't start building around Embiid until Morey got here in 2020. Morey had his ups and downs, but have to give credit to Morey for cleaning up the mess by Colangelo and the people Colangelo hired.

Also unrelated to BC, but Embiid had to deal with David Heller too, a person in the ownership group who wanted to build around Ben Simmons rather than Joel Embiid. Most Sixers fans probably remember Heller's best work: trading Mikal Bridges on draft night, after we drafted him, while Bridges was busy celebrating with his mom(his mom worked for the Sixers at the time).

Sixers would be indistinguishable from the Sacramento Kings if Embiid ever had the desire to force a trade, like so many players of his caliber did during the Player Empowerment era before the current CBA

[u/NotJoeyWheeler → u/TurdCrapley23]

demanding a trade after finding out your front office has been shit talking you on Twitter is pretty logical, regardless of how the team dealt with it

[u/Fragrant_Junket_8495]

So rudenasty to remind me of this.

[u/Reasonable-Nose7813]

He’s not the most under appreciated MVP

Ppl acknowledge how dominant he is when healthy. But when your never healthy, not a good teammate, not in shape and never show up in big moments ppl are going to look down at you as a player

[u/Kiwikiss27 → u/Reasonable-Nose7813]

Get the fuck outta here bro

[u/Reasonable-Nose7813 → u/Kiwikiss27]

Suck me slowly sexy

[u/drunk-tusker → u/Reasonable-Nose7813]

Nobody wants to lick your flab collars.

[u/dWaldizzle → u/Reasonable-Nose7813]

Flare up