![]() How do you look Joel Embiid in the eye going forward? How do you convince him that what you say has merit, and that your real opinions behind closed doors aren’t wildly divergent from what you’re telling him to his face? This whole thing is a mess. It would still be hard to justify keeping him around if it were a family member or somebody else close to him.įurthermore, even if you believe Colangelo had no idea the accounts were active, which still seems quite the stretch, it would be hard to believe that the opinions expressed didn’t at least align with Colangelo’s views - and the views expressed by the accounts were downright damaging. Bryan Colangelo? His relationships and ability to execute this phase of the rebuild, and Sam Hinkie’s purported inability to do so, was part of the justification for Colangelo being inserted at the top of the Sixers organization, after all. There are many qualified candidates to run the basketball operations of an NBA team and only 30 such positions, and continuing to stick with somebody who was so severely compromised would only happen if the person in question was truly irreplaceable. The damage to his ability to perform core functions of his job is compromised. In terms of saving his job, I’m not sure that it matters. ![]() Even if his wife was exclusively behind the tweets, the breach of trust and general public embarrassment is too severe. At this point, the damage is too deep to suggest that he should remain in charge. But that doesn’t mean it warrants him keeping his job. I suppose it’s less severe of an offense if Colangelo truly had no knowledge of the accounts. The perception issues that come with anyone close to Colangelo being behind those accounts seem like a lot to overcome. Whether that distinction should save his job is a different story, though. If (a key word here) the information was recklessly put into the public sphere by someone in his orbit and he wasn’t aware, that is a huge difference from him operating the accounts himself. Those were some seriously bad optics, but that doesn’t mean you also can’t feel empathy for him if he had no knowledge of the Twitter activity. I know Colangelo hasn’t been the most popular figure in Philadelphia from the get-go because of the series of events that led to him taking over. In terms of his reputation, it absolutely should. Without further ado, on to the questions.ĭoes it matter if Colangelo ran, or even knew of, the Twitter activity in question? To do so, we asked each of our basketball writers their opinions on some of the topics surrounding Burnergate*. Welp, there’s always next year.As the entire Delaware Valley, and much of the basketball watching public, sits and waits for the Sixers’ internal investigation to wrap up, we at The Athletic Philadelphia decided it was time to collect all of our thoughts in one place. #NBADraftLottery Representative has arrived! /CWhj0EvPub Unfortunately JoJo’s golden slippers didn’t bring us the luck we needed to get the Lakers’ pick or the first overall selection. ![]() #SamsTown /hEYVsTl941Īs for the lottery unveiling itself, the Sixers dispatched electrifying center Joel Embiid (the second-coming of Charles Barkley) to New York as their representative, where he went back and forth with Lakers executive Magic Johnson over whether our ownership of L.A.’s future first-round pick would convey this year.īRUHHH #TheProcess /WbL7cWfI4I Of course staunch anti-Hinkieite Howard Eskin was there to spoil all the fun and talk some trash on the soda tax. As with any true Philly get-together, there were tattoos, a wedding proposal, and even a retirement of sorts:Ī proposal.
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