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What we learned today: No amount of money or success or fame will make someone immune from getting his feelings hurt by Twitter eggs. Kevin Durant demonstrated this in September of last year and 76ers exec Bryan Colangelo reinforced this today. The franchise’s President of basketball operations looks to have gotten bagged making burner accounts to defend things as petty as his choices in dress shirts to more problematic initiatives like disparaging his predecessor Sam Hinkie and shitting on the team’s star player.
In the wake of the scandal, the 76ers organization have begun an independent investigation Colangelo’s online activity, releasing a statement claiming they will “report the results of that investigation as soon as it is concluded.”
As we wait with bated breath for the climax of this saga, please relish in some of the best Twitter reactions to the allegations against Colangelo.
@World_Wide_Wob Colangelo attempt to block out NBA twitter right now. pic.twitter.com/1J75vPj3lG
— Brian Nelson (@Brian__Nelson) May 30, 2018
LeBron when he gets a call from Bryan Colangelo to meet about joining the Sixers in the offseason. pic.twitter.com/gqcBINajEl
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) May 30, 2018
Bryan Colangelo’s birthday is on Friday. The best way for all of this to be confirmed would be if all of his accounts had Twitter’s birthday balloon treatment then.
— Adam McGee (@AdamMcGee11) May 30, 2018
how many burner twitter accounts did Bryan Colangelo have? pic.twitter.com/zAqkYLy9xp
— NBA Retweet (@RTNBA) May 30, 2018
Bryan Colangelo at Sixers HQ pic.twitter.com/Qxu00RE3JM
— shamus (@shamus_clancy) May 30, 2018
How I picture Bryan Colangelo in the Sixers offices with all his burner accounts #MasterOfDisguise pic.twitter.com/QEJoTOAn2y
— Mike Bennett, Philly sports victim (@mikeb927) May 30, 2018
Bryan Colangelo: Only one of the five damning burner accounts were actually mine!
Sixers fans: pic.twitter.com/WJBjfeKlSA
— Joe Giglio (@JoeGiglioSports) May 30, 2018
Colangelo finding out his burners were discovered pic.twitter.com/0MSiXFQMEN
— Internet Mike (@falloutflyer) May 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/Sam_Vecenie/status/1001683578613362688
https://twitter.com/PrimeeLeBron/status/1001674715768020994
Hey Bry, keep your head up. Albeit what you did was pathetic, at least you had the wherewithal to switch from your personal account before posting. Skip Bayless and Kevin Durant cannot say the same.
At least Bryan Colangelo switched to a burner account before tweeting about himself…Skip Bayless and Kevin Durant couldn’t even get that part right pic.twitter.com/q714EZoVKj
— Someone's An Idiot (@SomeonesAnIdiot) May 30, 2018