UPDATE (Wednesday, May 30, 7:50 a.m. ET): The Ringer’s bombshell story Tuesday night was enough to prompt a call from Bryan Colangelo to his star player.
The Philadelphia 76ers general manager spoke on the phone to center Joel Embiid and denied using multiple “burner accounts” on Twitter to criticize Sixers players, Embiid told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski late Tuesday night.
“I talked to him and he said that he didn’t say that,” Embiid told Wojnarowski. “He called me just to deny the story. Gotta believe him until proven otherwise. If true though, that would be really bad.”
Embiid posted a similar message on Twitter that evening.
Fun night on Twitter lmao.. All jokes asides I don’t believe the story. That would just be insane
— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) May 30, 2018
ORIGINAL STORY: Joel Embiid has a response to everything on Twitter.
So when it was unearthed that Philadelphia 76ers team president, Bryan Colangelo, reportedly was taking aim at him as well as former and current players on burner Twitter accounts, it only was a matter of time until we heard from the star big man.
It took less than two hours following the release of the story for Embiid to weigh in, and he made sure to make the tweet count.
BRUH pic.twitter.com/hv59PDxlgY
— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) May 30, 2018
Yep, that was everyone’s response.
Then Embiid added this response by tagging one of the burner Twitter accounts.
Joel told me that @samhinkie IS BETTER AND SMARTER THAN YOU @AlVic40117560 #BurnerAccount
— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) May 30, 2018
The fallout from this likely won’t be good for Colangelo, who in addition to ripping current and former players also leaked private medical information from the accounts. But you can be sure Embiid will keep the process lighthearted.
