A Tuesday night report alleging that Sixers’ general manager Bryan Colangelo uses multiple burner accounts on Twitter nearly broke the internet. Every one was weighing in on #BurnerGate including face of the franchise, Joel Embiid.
His first tweet was not clearly directed at anyone and was more reactionary:
But, Embiid’s next tweet was directed at one of the Colangelo’s alleged burner accounts:
Later, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said that Embiid said he got a call from Colangelo denying the story:
Sixers All-Star center Joel Embiid tells ESPN on Bryan Colangelo: “I talked to him and he said that he didn’t say that.