The Colangelo Affair
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4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're back. We're back. It's the Deadcast. I'm Drew. That's Roth. It's just us this week. And what a day online yesterday, Roth. It'll be two days hence once this post. But I will not soon forget May 29th, 2018. A great day in Twitter history. |
| 0:23.5 | Would you agree? It's possibly the most online day that's ever occurred, which is amazing because |
| 0:28.3 | actually May 28th was the most online day that had ever occurred. And I think May 27th before that. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah. Each day gets more online than the last. This one might hold the title for a couple days, though. |
| 0:39.1 | It was wild. |
| 0:40.9 | Tuesday, May 29th, 2018. |
| 0:43.4 | We're going to start, of course, with 76ers general manager, at least for now, Brian |
| 0:48.0 | Calangelo. |
| 0:49.4 | There was a story that posted at the Ringer and credit where credits do. |
| 0:53.0 | It's an amazing story. |
| 0:54.1 | It's by Ben Dietrich. |
| 0:55.8 | In which he uncovered the possibility that Brian Colangelo was operating, not one, but five different Twitter accounts that existed to trash his own players and defend his shirts. |
| 1:08.7 | It's just... |
| 1:10.0 | Honestly, even if he just used the five, if he had five burner accounts and they never talked about basketball, if all they did was just like, like photos of Rihanna, that's still a fireable offense, in my opinion. You know Ben, is that right? I do. I know him a little bit from online, and he's been a source for me when I've written about the Sixers. |
| 1:28.7 | He's especially happy for him. |
| 1:30.6 | He's a good dude and a good writer, but he's also a really hardcore process dude, and he fucking hates Brian Colangelo. |
| 1:38.0 | And so he might have actually, like, written the story that gets the guy that he detests out of the job he doesn't think he should have. |
| 1:45.9 | That's astonishing. We should go back. We should rewind for just a second. Of course, the Sixers, |
| 1:50.5 | this Sixers team was partially built, and I'll give him too much credit, by GM Sam Hinky, |
| 1:55.1 | the original Trust the Process guy, and just the most vapid tech asshole you could ever |
| 2:00.8 | want to run a basketball team. |
| 2:03.5 | But they tanked so hard and so long that the NBA and the Sixers essentially conspired to |
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