Of the many dramatic storylines that have arisen during this NBA season, the scandal involving Philadelphia 76ers general manager Bryan Colangelo and a few Twitter burner accounts might be the most shocking.To simplify the situation, a small number of anonymous Twitter accounts used sensitive, proprietary information to boost Colangelo’s reputation while criticizing certain players (including Joel Embiid) and Sixers officials. The Ringer broke the story and it was obvious that the 76ers were caught off-guard.Coming off of a very successful campaign, this certainly wasn’t the type of attention that Philadelphia wanted at the moment.Nonetheless, it quickly became the league’s top storyline outside of the Finals.After the results of an independent investigation were revealed, it turns out that Colangelo’s wife, Barbara Bottini, admitted to creating and running the Twitter handles in question. But, Colangelo provided her with the information that she used in her tweets."Our investigation revealed substantial evidence that Mr. Colangelo was the source of sensitive, non-public, club-related information contained in certain posts to the Twitter accounts. We believe that Mr. Colangelo was careless and in some instances reckless in failing to properly safeguard sensitive, non-public, club-related information in communications with individuals outside the 76ers organization," announced the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, which was commissioned by the team to investigate the situation.

The resignation

Although Colangelo never admitted any guilt, he resigned from his position while throwing his wife under the bus on Wednesday, as first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

"I vigorously dispute the allegation that my conduct was in any way reckless" Colangelo said in a statement. "At no point did I ever purposefully or directly share any sensitive, non-public, club-related information with her.”

"Her actions were a seriously misguided effort to publicly defend and support me, and while I recognize how inappropriate these actions were, she acted independently and without my knowledge or consent. Further, the content she shared was filled with inaccuracies and conjecture which in no way represent my own views or opinions. While this was obviously a mistake, we are a family and we will work through this together,” he added.

He concluded, ”Although I am not directly responsible for the actions, I regret this incident occurred and understand that it has become a distraction for the team. Therefore, the organization and I have mutually agreed to part ways.”

"We find the situation to be disappointing for our entire organization," 76ers managing partner Josh Harris said. "We are determined to continue the tremendous progress we have made over the last two seasons in our quest to win an NBA championship.”

Now with the absurd situation behind them, the Sixers will begin to look for a new general manager. In the time being, coach Brett Brown will expand his responsibilities to fill that role as well.

No one saw it coming, but Philadelphia will have to deal with a major front office change after their most successful season in a while.