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Colangelo Denies Using Secret Twitter Accounts To Criticize Players, NBA executives

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A report indicates he has as many as five accounts under fake names

Philadelphia 76ers general manager and former Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo is denying a report connecting the executive to Twitter accounts that criticized Sixers players Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, among other NBA figures.

The accounts also took aim at former Sixers GM Sam Hinkie, Toronto executive Masai Ujiri and former Sixers players Jahlil Okafor and Nerlens Noel, according to a report by The Ringer.

The Ringer asked the team about five Twitter accounts it suspected the GM was operating. Colangelo said in a statement that he used one of the accounts to monitor the NBA industry and other current events, but he was ``not familiar with any of the other accounts'' brought to his attention and he didn't know who was ``behind them or what their motives may be in using them.''

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