Joel Embiid Savagely Responds To Sixers GM Bryan Colangelo Reportedly Using Anonymous Twitter Accounts To Take Shots At Players

76ers President of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo appears to be in a heap of trouble now that the Ringer has reportedly discovered that he used several social media burner accounts to anonymously criticize former Sixers GM Sam Hinkie, Joel Embiid and used the accound to leak nonpublic medical information of several of his players to the media.

Via The Ringer

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

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 @phila1234567, and it has no account name), and four that have posted tweets or replied to other users. Of those, one was active between April 2016 and May 2017 (its account name is Eric jr, and its handle is @AlVic40117560), two were active within the past five months (HonestAbe / @Honesta34197118 and Enoughunkownsources / @Enoughunkownso1), and one was posting several times a day (Still Balling / @s_bonhams) and as recently as last week.

Here are some sample tweets posted from those accounts.

Colangelo has since denied that the accounts are his.

Like many of my colleagues in sports, I have used social media as a means to keep up with the news. While I have never posted anything whatsoever on social media, I have used the @Phila1234567 Twitter account referenced in this story to monitor our industry and other current events. This storyline is disturbing to me on many levels, as I am not familiar with any of the other accounts that have been brought to my attention, nor do I know who is behind them or what their motives may be in using them.

So Colangelo appears to confirm he was the owner of one of the five accounts in question, and the other three immediately went private.

Joel Embiid reacted to the news the only way he could.

Update: Embiid tells ESPN that Colangelo and called him to deny the report.

Amazing.