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The One Year Anniversary of “Burnergate”

It’s May 29th and so it’s one year ago to the day that Ben Detrick of The Ringer wrote one of the weirdest basketball-related reports many of us have ever read. “The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account” was so mind-boggling that it actually led to Colangelo stepping down 9 very long days later.

“Burnergate” as it’s often called, has become one of life’s preciously rare instances that feels like it happened a much longer time ago than it actually occurred. Usually you look back at something that happened a year ago and say “wow, how was that a year already?