Hello and welcome to a special episode of the Ringer NBA show, my name is Chris Ryan,

and today I am joined by Ben D-Trick.

Ben wrote a story for the Ringer yesterday, which you may have heard about.

It is called The Curious Case of Brian Colangelo and the Secret Twitter account.

Ben and I have been working on this story for a really long time.

He brought it to me earlier this year, and we kicked it around for months on end.

And then in the last two weeks, it really heated up.

What the story says, gosh, well, we're a story.

What the story essentially says is there are some weird behaviors by some very odd Twitter

accounts, and that we think at the rear that we see some similarities between these Twitter

accounts.

And one of these Twitter accounts after we approached the Sixers last week has been

confirmed to belong to Sixers Team President Brian Colangelo.

And since then, a lot of people have drawn their own conclusions, but what Ben does in

his piece that I think is excellent, and you should obviously read if you haven't read

it already, is basically lay out this huge case for how these Twitter accounts have

been operating over the last few years, which happened to coincide with Brian Colangelo's

time at the Philadelphia 76ers.

And some of the things that these accounts have done is engage in critiquing players like

Joel and Bede, Joliel Oakford, Nirlens Noel, they have critiqued the past Sixers regime

of Sam Hinkie, who Colangelo replaced as basically the basketball decision maker at the

franchise, as well as Toronto Raptors president Masayu Girry, who Colangelo was in turn

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