For a story as strange as this one, for the sake of grabbing something solid out of 76ers president Bryan Colangelo’s purported use of one or more ghost Twitter accounts to settle scores and lambaste the franchise’s own players and power people, maybe the starting point is a phone conversation that’s now two-and-a-half years old.
The conversation was not with Bryan Colangelo. It was with his father, Jerry, a titan in American basketball who had first become an NBA executive in 1966. Since then, he had scouted, marketed, coached, managed, and owned in the league, and the Sixers, at the apparent behest of commissioner Adam Silver and several NBA owners, had hired Colangelo as their chairman of basketball operations.