BRIGGS wrote:All of these owners management ppYers post and monitor these boards . To actually go on twitter and get caught doing it-- what a monumental mistake -- gonna cost him a premier nba job and multi millions

His ownership wants him gone. Media manipulation is standard fare for front offices in professional sports. I've seen far worse in my day.

"Internal leaks" are not random. They are strategy. Someone "discovering" something is not random, it's strategy.

When someone needs to be held to blame for a team losing, sides naturally split. Usually it's the GM versus the head coach. This case is a little different.

One of Colangelo's arguments is there was not much done to the existing roster, but the NBA format has very little personnel movement implied to it. Guaranteed contracts and a very narrow talent pool ensure all of this.

CrushAlot wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Don't really get what he or his wife were thinking - why post insider knowledge so frequently and at the same time so obviously indicating where that insider knowledge was coming from. Just dumb beyond belief.

Also, Philly fans are so passionate. Hard not to think that someone would figure this out.

Yeah haven’t seen Mills post on this board in awhile. Now he may never grace the boards again!

GustavBahler wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Don't really get what he or his wife were thinking - why post insider knowledge so frequently and at the same time so obviously indicating where that insider knowledge was coming from. Just dumb beyond belief.

His family has been a part of the league for so long that they might have felt they were untouchable. Like royalty. Was a classless thing to do.

This is a problem with most people in power....Just look at the President on his staff.

to some extent, you have to like the true passion he shows but again, it's tied into mental stability. he couldn't control himself and now he's going to have to pay for it. with that said, he's probably not alone and a bunch of other execs have done the same thing.

djsunyc wrote:an inability to control themselves from responding to criticism ties into mental stability a bit. per toronto beat writers, he was so obsessed with criticism that he would email/text beat writers all hours of the night on things they wrote...even things said on a small chat on their website.

to some extent, you have to like the true passion he shows but again, it's tied into mental stability. he couldn't control himself and now he's going to have to pay for it. with that said, he's probably not alone and a bunch of other execs have done the same thing.

All of these guys do it including players. At the end of they day they are human beings-- they go home and use the computer too! Colangelo quite foolish to get caught!

knickstorrents wrote:Bitch still has a job, wtf

Fired for what exactly?

It's not illegal for your wife to post things on Twitter, if it was even her. It wasn't a violation of Rex Ryan's contract with the Jets when several videos of his wife doing some crazy foot fetish/hot wifing/spouse swapping stuff happened.

You can fire Colangelo if you just don't think he's doing a good job as GM. However you can't fire him FOR CAUSE and terminate his contract FOR CAUSE when there is actually little to no evidence he violated said contract.

It's EMBARRASSING AND UNPROFESSIONAL, but you can be an NBA GM and bad mouth your predecessor. Trash your own players. Leak some internal information ( This is a little gray to be honest) and uptalk yourself.

A member of the media at The Ringer got an "anonymous tip". Yeah OK, just like Rex Ryan's thing happened out of the blue ( He was pissing off a lot of old guard guys in the NFL, many of whom already hated his father)

Lots of members of the media know a ton of dirty **** about players, owners, GMs, scouts, agents. But they mostly keep it to themselves. Because you go leaking that stuff, you get boxed out. Maybe most NBA GMs despise Colangelo, but he's ONE OF THEM. You show you can't be trusted and then no one talks to you and then you lose your job because part of your job is to have those kind of guys talk to you. Does this mean Colangelo was right here? That's one issue. The other issue is the family of people within the sport are generally seen as immune. You don't go after someone's kid. Someone's wife. It's just bad business all around. The risk of open retaliation is too great.

Colangelo is right about one thing. Someone is clearly after him to get him fired and his contract voided ( Likely his owner) It's his fault for leaving ammo there to use against him.

Don't trust anyone. Don't tell anyone anything. That's what it comes down to in a high profile/pressure job like this.

TripleThreat wrote:

knickstorrents wrote:Bitch still has a job, wtf

Fired for what exactly?

It's not illegal for your wife to post things on Twitter, if it was even her. It wasn't a violation of Rex Ryan's contract with the Jets when several videos of his wife doing some crazy foot fetish/hot wifing/spouse swapping stuff happened.

You can fire Colangelo if you just don't think he's doing a good job as GM. However you can't fire him FOR CAUSE and terminate his contract FOR CAUSE when there is actually little to no evidence he violated said contract.

It's EMBARRASSING AND UNPROFESSIONAL, but you can be an NBA GM and bad mouth your predecessor. Trash your own players. Leak some internal information ( This is a little gray to be honest) and uptalk yourself.

A member of the media at The Ringer got an "anonymous tip". Yeah OK, just like Rex Ryan's thing happened out of the blue ( He was pissing off a lot of old guard guys in the NFL, many of whom already hated his father)

Lots of members of the media know a ton of dirty **** about players, owners, GMs, scouts, agents. But they mostly keep it to themselves. Because you go leaking that stuff, you get boxed out. Maybe most NBA GMs despise Colangelo, but he's ONE OF THEM. You show you can't be trusted and then no one talks to you and then you lose your job because part of your job is to have those kind of guys talk to you. Does this mean Colangelo was right here? That's one issue. The other issue is the family of people within the sport are generally seen as immune. You don't go after someone's kid. Someone's wife. It's just bad business all around. The risk of open retaliation is too great.

Colangelo is right about one thing. Someone is clearly after him to get him fired and his contract voided ( Likely his owner) It's his fault for leaving ammo there to use against him.

Don't trust anyone. Don't tell anyone anything. That's what it comes down to in a high profile/pressure job like this.

Revealing medical info is a huge violation of privacy and policy (whether he disclosed it on twitter himself or told his wife. Secondly, its completely alienated players (especially embiid) and destroyed trust. I don't see how he doesn't get canned

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1004752956133126145