This story becomes more bizarre by the tweet.
No, not the tweets in which Bryan Colangelo is being alleged of sending from mysterious Twitter accounts.
But instead, it's the tweets circulating the social media world, the ones attempting to solve the jaw-dropping report surrounding the Sixers' president of basketball operations.
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As for the latest, the buzz is beginning to take an interesting twist.
Since The Ringer's story broke, many on Twitter have claimed that three of the five accounts reportedly in question were associated with a phone number ending in 91.
Three of the five twitter accounts have a phone number ending in 91 as the password reset, meaning they are linked together. Bryan Colangelo is lying through his teeth. @BrandonGowton @RealMattCarey @World_Wide_Wob pic.twitter.com/FlZtmXsYvd— Josh Young (@joroyo92) May 30, 2018
Ok 3 of the 5 use the 91 number pic.twitter.com/rM54cV8FFO— The Guy from TV's Burn Notice (@OhWowHmm) May 30, 2018
Which apparently led to people researching Colangelo's wife, Barbara Bottini.
According to some on Twitter, Bottini's phone number was discovered and it also ends in 91.
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Colangelo's wife, Barbara Bottini has a phone number ending in 91, almost certainly linking her to 3 of the burner accounts.
WOW. pic.twitter.com/PQpe5GccEh— Did the Sixers win? (@DidTheSixersWin) May 31, 2018
Bryan Colangelo's wife, Barbara Bottini, has a phone number that ends in 91, just like three of the accounts in question. pic.twitter.com/1OG20DyVFP— Kyle Scott (@CrossingBroad) May 31, 2018
@legsanity When you go through the full twitter password reset flow, and enter AlVic40117560, it defaults the country selection to Canada when asking for full number ending in 91. Barbara Bottini's phone number has a 647 area code - Toronto.— Shop the Process (@ShopTheProcess) May 31, 2018
And another possible connection.
Bryan's wife, Barbara Bottini, was given an award by their son's high school, due to her service to the school (which includes helping with the Arts boosters, which connects to the Bonhams name in another account) . who nominated her? two people Eric jr followed. pic.twitter.com/3u4Xoh1qz2— Burner Colangelo (@legsanity) May 30, 2018
Meanwhile, Rich Hofmann of The Athletic Philadelphia astutely pointed this out.
Looking back, Bryan Colangelo held a media availability right before the Heat game on February 11, 2017 to address Joel Embiid's (previously undisclosed) torn meniscus. From looking at the timestamps, it seems like during that time, Eric Jr was also tweeting during that session. pic.twitter.com/9Q1JOdrXZW— Rich Hofmann (@rich_hofmann) May 31, 2018
Make of it all what you will.
Of course, all the above means very little, though. The Sixers' independent investigation into the report is what matters and will ultimately provide the real, definitive findings.
It won't just be through Google searches and Twitter backgrounds.
But that won't stop anyone from trying to crack this wild case.
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