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Jerry Colangelo Still Doesn’t Think His Son Did Anything Wrong in the Sixers Burner Scandal
By Kyle Pagan
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The Inquirer’s Mike Sielski spoke with former NBA executive Jerry Colangelo, who still doesn’t think his son did anything wrong in the Sixers burner scandal:
“Bryan is doing fine,”… “He’s not in basketball, as you well know, and that’s a sad story from my perspective because he really had nothing to do with anything, if you know what I mean.”
I did. Anyone who has followed the NBA and the Sixers over the last decade would. And anyone who remembers what happened would know that Jerry, by saying that his son “really had nothing to do with anything,” was granting Bryan a heavy, perhaps inappropriate measure of generosity and loyalty — the kind of generosity and loyalty that only a father can give to his son.
Bryan Colangelo did nothing wrong. Find a new slant.
God I’d kill to be a nepo baby. My dad was a bus driver and my mom worked in HR. I was destined for middle management. You know how different my life would’ve been if my dad would’ve gotten into basketball at the college or NBA level instead of coaching CYO at St. John of the Cross (RIP)? I’m playing the world’s smallest violin in regard to Bryan Colangelo hiding out somewhere. The guy got three different GM jobs in the NBA and succeeded his dad for the GM position with the Suns at 30. Boo hoo. You know that saying, “Don’t bring work home with you?” Bryan Colangelo did the opposite. Barbara Bottini would ask Colangelo how work went and apparently he would trauma dump everything on her, from Joel Embiid’s lack of maturity to Jahlil Okafor not passing a team physical and blowing up a trade. Remember Keith Pompey admitted that one of his best sources was one of the burners run by Colangelo’s wife?
The reason why we’re not enjoying the fruits of our labor like the Oklahoma City Thunder is because the NBA performed a coup and installed their own regime sending Sam Hinkie to the gallows. It’s been chaos ever since. I’ll never forgive you Adam Silver. I still can’t believe how embarrassing that day was. Altered a once proud franchise forever. It was so bad we were getting roasted by the Athletics and Rockies:
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com