Everything 2018 Off Season

[golden]

I'll be surprised if someone like BC was that reckless, but there is a strange trail of breadcrumbs. There's the Toronto, University of Chicago, Phillly connections, and then the accounts going private after contacting the Sixers all point to BC but that's all circumstantial. Could be somebody else inside the organization, maybe a front office employee close to him who's a fan. Some people really got the boss's back.

On the plus side - I didn't realize BC stayed in Ontario till the Sixers hired him or that his son finished out high school here. Take that for metric, Antonio Davis' wife!

Maybe BC didn't purge all the Hinkie loyalists? Some amazing soap opera story lines unfolding here. This is just the tonic we needed to forget about our own Lebronto embarrassment.

[rocwell]

Check out the NBA's Augmented Reality (AR) App.

Using Apple’s ARKit & Google’s ARCore tech, fans can superimpose a virtual door which they walk through to watch recorded action.

Imagine when this supports live content. pic.twitter.com/B7CncQkrkC

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 30, 2018

[rocwell]

THIS NBA story won't get enough play today. Like, the guy BROUGHT IN his own EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. I'd call that a red flag, but maybe that's me. https://t.co/YJuNgNJLqH

— Greg Brady (@gregbradyTO) May 30, 2018

[planetmars]

It's too obvious though. Plus there's this which I posted in another thread:

I'm pretty sure at least one of the accounts (Eric Jr) is not his. It talks about being an old man and having a daughter too old for a married man. That account has the same last two recovery digits as two other accounts, so those might not be his either.

Maybe it's Jerry.

I'm not that twitter savvy but I didn't see anything about being an old man and having a daughter in @AlVic40117560's (Eric Jr) twitter feed. Where did you see that?

[rocwell]

76ers president Bryan Colangelo has been actively reaching out to individuals mentioned in those burner accounts, insisting that he isn't responsible for those tweets, league sources tell ESPN. Sixers probe is underway in aftermath of The Ringer story.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 30, 2018

[JimiCliff]

I'm really surprised so many people are buying this. The tone of the tweets is so obviously not 'multi-millionaire 50 year-old social media noob'.

[rocwell]

BC is probably reading Churchill quotes right now.

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill.

[golden]

I'm really surprised so many people are buying this. The tone of the tweets is so obviously not 'multi-millionaire 50 year-old social media noob'.

Misery loves company.

[KeonClark]

I'm really surprised so many people are buying this. The tone of the tweets is so obviously not 'multi-millionaire 50 year-old social media noob'.

So I'm assuming you have a super logical theory/explanation?

[DanH]

I'm really surprised so many people are buying this. The tone of the tweets is so obviously not 'multi-millionaire 50 year-old social media noob'.

People are buying it because it's the simplest explanation of the facts.

It's a choice between a mysterious person taking 2+ years to perform an elaborate set-up, leaking the fake story to a journalist, predicting the actions of said journalist or possibly hacking the journalist's communications to the extent of being able to shut down the alternate accounts right when Colangelo is informed of them, also having contacts inside the organization to be able to leak inside information, tracking Colangelo's location to mock being in the same place as him multiple times over multiple years....

Or Colangelo (or someone closely connected to him) did a dumb thing.

Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor, take your pick. But the scenario to explain this away as a set-up is more far-fetched than the alternative.

Now, it could also be the Ringer just making crap up. Also a simple explanation. But doesn't seem likely when you consider the implications of being caught doing that as a journalist.

[JimiCliff]

So I'm assuming you have a super logical theory/explanation?

Lol, speaking of tone...

[JimiCliff]

People are buying it because it's the simplest explanation of the facts.

It's a choice between a mysterious person taking 2+ years to perform an elaborate set-up, leaking the fake story to a journalist, predicting the actions of said journalist or possibly hacking the journalist's communications to the extent of being able to shut down the alternate accounts right when Colangelo is informed of them, also having contacts inside the organization to be able to leak inside information, tracking Colangelo's location to mock being in the same place as him multiple times over multiple years....

Or Colangelo (or someone closely connected to him) did a dumb thing.

Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor, take your pick. But the scenario to explain this away as a set-up is more far-fetched than the alternative.

Now, it could also be the Ringer just making crap up. Also a simple explanation. But doesn't seem likely when you consider the implications of being caught doing that as a journalist.

As scams go, what you detailed above isn't especially elaborate. Occam's Razor tells me that the culprit is much more likely to be a twenty-something smart ass with a lot of time on their hands, rather than a 50 year old millionaire executive gaining absolutely nothing from this.

[S.R.]

I'm really surprised so many people are buying this. The tone of the tweets is so obviously not 'multi-millionaire 50 year-old social media noob'.

People are buying it because it's the simplest explanation of the facts.

It's a choice between a mysterious person taking 2+ years to perform an elaborate set-up, leaking the fake story to a journalist, predicting the actions of said journalist or possibly hacking the journalist's communications to the extent of being able to shut down the alternate accounts right when Colangelo is informed of them, also having contacts inside the organization to be able to leak inside information, tracking Colangelo's location to mock being in the same place as him multiple times over multiple years....

Or Colangelo (or someone closely connected to him) did a dumb thing.

Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor, take your pick. But the scenario to explain this away as a set-up is more far-fetched than the alternative.

Now, it could also be the Ringer just making crap up. Also a simple explanation. But doesn't seem likely when you consider the implications of being caught doing that as a journalist.

We've also had social media long enough to know that "tone" goes right out the window when people have online anonymity. The joke about Internet trolls being 300 pound incels in mom's basement is that they aren't - Internet trolls are just everyday assholes who finally have the anonymity to let it all hang out.

[rocwell]

What if Cavs had something to do with BC story? I'm just saying...

[KeonClark]

As scams go, what you detailed above isn't especially elaborate. Occam's Razor tells me that the culprit is much more likely to be a twenty-something smart ass with a lot of time on their hands, rather than a 50 year old millionaire executive gaining absolutely nothing from this.

I don't think hed do it to "gain" anything. We'd be naive to think colangelo is the only famous person online anonymously defending themselves one Twitter battle at a time.

He's obviously become quite insecure since being fired from Toronto, ujiri becoming so admired so soon after, then replacing hinkie..like really coming before ujiri and after hinkie, is there 2 gms more universally praised? And then the shirt collar memes...lol