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The Best of Eric Jr.

Kevin Kinkead

By Kevin Kinkead

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I don’t know if Bryan Colangelo has four burner Twitter accounts to go along with a fifth account that he confirmed himself the owner of in a story published last night by The Ringer. 

Four of the accounts are private, but one, @AlVic40117560, is still active. The account is attributed to a guy named “Eric jr” and features a profile picture of a mushroom, for whatever reason. The last Tweet was posted in July of 2017, so there’s nothing recent. A majority of the 296 tweets were posted halfway through the 2016-17 season. 

If this is indeed the Sixers’ general manager, then some of the things posted under the “Eric jr” handle are firing-worthy. There is criticism of players and the disclosure of personal medical history. There are shots fired at former GM Sam Hinkie and allegedly biased media members as well. And if none of what’s in there is true, then it’s fabrication, which might be worse.

Here’s some of the stuff that stands out, starting with an anti-Hinkie take:

Hinkie died for our sins? Nope:

Eric is a Dei Lynam fan:

Anti-Hinkie, after Sixers President Chris Heck tweeted a photo of the team’s new court design:

Another anti-Hinkie take:

Eric responded to a story Kyle wrote about supporting Derek Bodner’s Patreon site, which he ran before moving to the Athletic in 2017:

Eric also hates anonymous sources:

Nerlens Noel is apparently selfish and knows something about “Jay” Okafor’s knee situation:

Okafor allegedly failed a physical with another team:

He wasn’t a fan of Joel Embiid not taking his injury situation seriously:

And here’s one with Embiid tagged:

Hinkie should have drafted Porzingis instead. Actually, we can all agree on this:

Tweets about Raptors GM Masai Ujiri, Colangelo’s replacement:

Here’s a story about sitting next to Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union at the Beijing Olympics, which Union and Wade denied this morning:

Plot twist: Union has denied being in Beijing:

More Hinkie:

And a political tweet:

The Ersan trade (the first time he came to Philly):

As I mentioned above, Eric jr. is the only remaining active account. The Ringer story logged tweets from the other accounts before they were locked, and this passage jumped out at me:

In one particularly bizarre tweet, Still Balling even accused Brown of sidelining Fultz in order to sabotage the team. “I think that it would shorten Brett’s rope on ‘why we lost’ alibi,” the account wrote in a response to a tweet from Sixers announcer Marc Zumoff. “So Brett would rather keep him out.”

And there was another tweet where he responded directly to Markelle Fultz:

Time’s yours.

Kevin Kinkead
Kevin Kinkead

Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com

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