Kevin Durant LOVES social media. Well, Twitter in particular. He engaged wuth fans on online platforms more than any other superstar ever seen.
In any sport, most likely. His teammate, Houston Rockets point guard Fred VanVleet stated that Durant will fire up a tweet and then go get his ankles taped up, or go on about his daily basketball preparation routine.
Which means posting on Twitter has become part of his daily routine. Which is okay.
Hell, the man was visibly on his phone through the All-Star
game.
Durant has even joined Twitter Spaces a time or two. Which also isn’t a bad thing.
One of those times was in the offseason. Players can do what they wish in the offseason.
Or when they’re not on the hardwood.
However, Durant has gotten himself into scandals involving burner accounts on social media.
As a side note, the use of burner accounts is fairly common amongst athletes. Jalen Green openly admitted that he has a handful of them.
What’s unusual about Durant is that his burner accounts seem to get exposed.
Key words: seem to.
Because we ultimately don’t know.
Well, there was a situation in 2017 that’s been confirmed by Durant himself. He unknowingly tweeted from his own account defending himself against the backlash he’d received for leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors.
Durant clearly intended to tweet from a non-verified account, in that situation.
Over the weekend, Durant became the subject of another situation, this time involving a group chat on Twitter with a burner account.
This time, it’s been unverified. But based on Durant’s history with fake accounts on Twitter, many believe there’s merit here.
This time, a Twitter user with just 75 followers (and a now private account) was seen commenting in a group chat about many of Durant’s former teammates.
Specifically Ben Simmons, James Harden, Russell Westbrook and Stephen Curry.
Durant’s current Rockets teammates were also mentioned.
Jabari Smith Jr. and Alperen Sengun, in particular.
Again, there is no way to confirm whether this was Durant himself.
However, he could shut it down directly, if he so desired.
(He has no problem using the platform to call people out or shut things down).
This could be a random person posing as Durant. Let’s hope it is.
Because if otherwise, this is entirely immature, and avoidable, I should add.
And based on his past, there’s no way to dismiss it with absolute certainty.
