[Michael Shapiro] “It’s on him to find ways to get himself involved and get to his spots without the double team. Just because he’s getting double teamed, we still need him to be KD, you know?”
NAHHHH he definitely knows that burner was true lmao
people actually thought those were fake?
knew it was real when KD, a guy who is always replying and talking shit to people on X, went silent after the leaks came out lol
He looked clearly worried in the aftermath. It was obvious.
also the fact that he couldn’t outright say “that wasn’t me”. giving some vague beat around the bush type explanations.
Right. Why wouldn’t you straight up deny it? The only way it makes sense is if he knows there’s more proof and the leaker may go the extra mile to make inarguable if he even attempts denying it.
I’m sure it was him not knowing what they can prove so he has to be vague
KD just happy that they only caught one burner. Imagine he denies and our online detectives find all the shit he also said besides what was shown lol.
Atleast he didnt lie lol
Didn’t he fire his whole Boardroom staff because he thought the leak was from them?
I had no idea it was even up for debate. The KD files are 100% real
Same. He’s always happy to joke about being a troll on Twitter. When he said NOTHING I knew it was real 😂
The deep 3 pod basically confirmed it was true and most guys in the league knew about the group chat for years and they were not surprised by the comments
I knew it was true the moment I read them.
Lmao so many dudes were telling me there was no evidence to prove it was him. KD cock goblins were working overtime PR for him on here.
I was thinking the same thing when the files dropped. Who even likes KD enough nowadays to go to bat for him this hard lol.
there’s a lot of KD stans out there that just go wherever he goes
He does have friends everywhere
someone watched andor
Partagaz couldn’t win with those cats
I guess some Houston fans or maybe some Warriors fans that are extremely grateful for his tenure there.
I won’t Stan him anymore but I genuinely have relatively positive thoughts about KD and his time in Brooklyn. It’s fuck Qyrie till I die tho
Gaslighting is highly effective
-Kevin Durant
Well according to KD, Jabari might have believed that it was all fake due to his mental issues, but even he ain’t buying it.
There’s lots of dumb and naive people who are excited to open their mouths and expose who dumb/naive they are.
My brain started hurting after reading so many ppl question whether it was real or not - especially after the all star game.
After season reports gonna be hilarious gonna be like everyone hated KD and just tried to be pros and play though it
The Ringer working on the 45 paragraph oral history, opened by a flowery description of a locker room, as we speak.
As the sun burst like a ripened wintermelon over a bright Houston morning on Feb 17th 2026, bobcats scurrying between their nests as the wheeled cycle of nature turns for a new day like eggs over easy flipped on a virulently sparking grill, a portentous full moon was about to burn supernova in the phone in the pocket of Jabari Smith Jnr (Auburn), Power Forward for the Houston Rockets.
nah bill is a kd apologist anytime there’s kd news
Bill was one of the few media people to actually talk about the tweets lmao.
Think he’s in it for the dramas just like us at this stage.
Yeah them young dudes got they own group chat called “Draymond hard carried”.
That ended the rockets’ season tbh
What’re you referring to
dickerson about to go on a legendary rant
Deserved this is like full on mutiny right? Blaming the only guy that’s playing well at 37?
The dude that can’t pass out of a double team is playing well?
I mean yeah part of this is on KD for sure, but also if you watch the game no one comes to help him. They just sit in their spots and watch him get swarmed
Exactly the Lakers defense is literally doing the Will Smith look away meme on the rest of the team but I’m supposed blame it all on KD?
The stuff he said on the burners was for sure wild but I’ve yet to see anybody disprove those comments on the court.
Or maybe it’s their way of getting revenge on KD
He did call one of them a regarded
Yeah the dude talking in the clip 🤣
EXACTLY 💯💯💯💯💯💯
BRO this shit happened to Luka last playoffs and no one said anything. LMFAO
The media hates KD.
Even if they’re just sitting there’s always an open guy whe you’re doubled. The fact that he repeatedly can’t make the right pass at 7ft tall is sad
if legit nba players fail to get even get a shot up consistently 4 on 3, im gonna blame them and not the guy getting double teamed
How can you get a shot up if the guy with the ball keeps turning it over?
Dude, have you watched the game? I hate KD but his teammates were stupid. Lakers have no respect to KDs teammates that he is being doubled at the top of the key. That is basically the worstplace to double because it leaves the floor wide open. So what his teammates did? They basically stand where the remaining 3 players have coverage or too far in the corner. Lakers are basically forcing durant to take the shot or pass the ball to the far corner where they could recover their defensive position. No one wants to go to the weak side where they can easily receive the pass and either drive or shoot.
Maybe move and get into a spot to take a pass when your dude leaves to go double
Thats probably on coaching as well though. The team is a bunch of young players so coaching is super pertinent here
Ime’s too busy scouting honeys in the facilities and crowd for that
Would you help if he’d talked shit about you?
Yes, that’s their job lol. They’re not hurting a guaranteed Hof er and previous MVP player much. Like losing at this stage isn’t doing much to his legacy at this point
For a regular season game? Sure. For a one way trip to Cancun? Prob not.
Yes he was the best player on the team yesterday. Try watching basketball next time.
Sengun has been awful the past two games. His efficiency has been putrid for a big that mainly attempts shots in the paint.
Sengun is awful.
insane that lakers fans have to defend KD but like what are these bozos even watching, the rest of the rockets are fucking hopeless on offense
without KD yall probably win by 50 lmao
if he had sufficient talent around him they wouldn’t just be able to double team him at half court.
yea, he should rly consider moving to a team with talent
Yes they would. KD and Kawhi suck out of the double. They don’t pass well enough or dribble well enough. Lebron gets doubled too. He punishes it with his passing.
Steph gets doubled. He can dribble around it, pass out of it or use Draymond two man game to beat it by giving Draymond a 4v3
I’m sure it’s really frustrating for KD to be playing with such an inexperienced roster, but good leaders guide and teach their teammates instead of throwing them under the bus.
KDs a great player but he’s never really shown much leadership anywhere he’s gone. At his salary and skill level he can’t expect to just show up and expect to be the play finisher every possession and pout when it doesn’t work out. Harden for example has made an incredible transition into a floor general after being a scorer for a lot of his career. Of course KD doesn’t have the same handle but there’s no reason KD can’t help a little in that dept.
I would be mad at him too if he was shit talking me on his burner; I’m already under so scrutiny by simple virtue of being an NBA player, and my own teammate, my franchise teammate, is talking about me like that?
Getting cooked on court by Marcus Smart
Getting cooked off court by the teammate you threw under the bus in your burner
What’s the background on this?
TLDR - KD had another burner account under the handle “GetOffMyDickerson” revealed around the All-Star break where he joked about his investment in drones that were being used in a genocide
He also called Jabari the R-word and that Westbrook was a “triple double cocaine bear”
Don’t forget he said he’d rather play with Ben Simmons because at least Simmons passed him the ball lol
You just reminded me Ben Simmons is still playing. How is he having his worst year when this is the time most players are in their prime?
What?
He is not still playing
He’s gone. Last time I’ve heard of him, he was or went fishing.
everyone says that westbrook quote was meant negatively but i feel like he meant it as a compliment
He was for sure complimenting Westbrook. He said “I wouldn’t say Kai was competing with me but that light skin and that triple double cocaine bear were”.
Who’s the light skin? Curry?
Ya that’s my guess
I think so as well - it’s probably the only one of those leaks that was positive since even the Ben Simmons remark had some backhanded comment about him - but it’s just an objectively funny (and accurate) description of Russ at his peak
It is especially when you read it in context
For sure it was a compliment. Westbrook was legit possessed for a few years there.
The KDFiles was easily the best part of allstar weekend.
I didn’t know about him investing in war crimes. I just thought he as a douchey asshole, didn’t realize he was a full on piece of garbage.
The burner account had a callous response to someone pressing him on it too; something like “if you need drones, we got you”.
R word?
Rapscallion
Romulus/Remus
Rascal
Roronoa Zoro
Re-cyc-ling ? I’m not familiar with that term you adorable ruggamuffin
to be fair durant was speaking privately with some buddies, which isn’t the same as publicly throwing a teammate under the bus. l
Privately on the internet with some buddies who are actually random fanboys from Twitter, yeah right lol.
This is pretty damning, no?
never meet your heroes. Jabari calling it like it is esp after those burner tweets. PR answer would’ve been “we gotta do a better job of helping out KD” lol
That’s mainly in the coach honestly. You gotta adjust the gameplan, run plays to get him open. Yea the rest of the team needs to step up but ultimately it’s the coach that needs to figure out that KD is getting doubled so you gotta find a way to run plays and get him open. Ime has always been a defensive minded person tho so this isn’t surprising
But KD also famously doesn’t like running plays
I was just thinking about this after just making a comment like the one above you lol. Them standing around reminds me heavily of someone trying to iso ball, which is KDs preferred method of play.
Crazy how fans know this yet GMs still make these mistakes
this. Ime brought a culture change but its coming to an end without any offensive gameplan. We had low expectations for the last few seasons but now Rockets are being exposed. This has been going on all season and now it really shines in the playoffs
I don’t wanna be an overdramatic fan (I do) but that can’t be a positive statement lmao
Vibes are off the charts
vibes are very maculate rn
The headline is a miss quote. He says “it’s on him to to find ways to get himself involved and get to his spots without, you know excluding the double team”. Taking out this part completely changes what he means.
He’s talking about how KD needs to get his spots and the team needs to find ways to punish the double team. Not saying it’s all on KD.
Yeah it doesn’t seem nearly as damning listening to it vs reading it
It sounded positive when I actually listened and his tone/body language .
I think most people just read caption and got jokes off
Yeah the caption is heavily editorialized. This is a nothing burger.
The vibes are the complete opposite of immaculate
so, maculate?
Vibes are etalucammi.
Suineg
Average Durant team. Sports are a team game… chemistry and teams win. Durant just ain’t that dude
Yeah the problem is this is not KD, KD isn’t a “top of the key” guy, that has never been his strenght, he has always played with guards that allowed him to get the ball in his spots via wide pindowns, in the mid post, on the wing.
He can handle the ball, he can pass a bit, but he’s not a point forward
It’s weird ppl are knocking KD so much. He’s being forced to play point forward which is not his game. Imagine having KAT or Wemby play point center for 35 mins, they are not going to look great at it. Next let’s see Steph or Harden be the main poa defender.
The reason is because he’s constantly been compared to Lebron throughout the years so people are expecting to be just as versatile. Not fair to him but that’s what it is IMO.
He’s getting knocked because people just don’t like KD, not because they actually think he’s the main problem.
So thankful for y’all that have sense. KD can be KD because he’s been KD all season. A smart team will double him knowing that his teammates will have to make plays. Blaming a superstar for being doubled is what comes with being a superstar. It’s up to the rest of the team to produce.
And lastly, they don’t have a real point guard. KD can handle the ball but he’s not bringing the ball up every play.
Lebron aside there are also more ball handling stars like Jokic, Luka and even Giannis which skews people’s expectation. KD is just not that and thats okay.
Man, it’s one thing if we’re developing some new rookie into a new role but you’re not going to get a guy that’s been in the league as long as KD has to learn to play a way he has never been asked to play.
This isn’t KD looking bad. To me, this is rockets shoving the blame of a short sighted roster on their superstar.
Rockets season was done when FVV got hurt. KD with no point guard is gonna be awful
we could’ve picked up a PG before the trade deadline but either Ime or the FO is incompetent.
both are
Harden was right there, hell even Westbrick would’ve been better than no PG
He did play a bit like that in 2014 when Russ was out and in some staggered line ups in OKC, but he was way more athletic so he had the threat to blowing by, he doesn’t really have that anymore, especially vs someone like Smart.
But then who can do it on that team ? Amen can bring the ball up but he can’t feed KD since his defender would just deny KD with Amen being a non shooter, same for Sengun.
Like I know they’ve both been bad but should they play one of Sheppard and Aaron Holiday all game ? I think they might have to
Not even that, when the double comes, people aren’t showing him anything to help and even when they do, they can’t shoot well enough to take advantage of the 4 vs 3
He’s not being asked to be a point forward. He’s being asked to ISO and move the ball when/if the double happens.
That’s not a lot to ask of an 18-year vet, let alone a superstar.
He’s at the top of the key, he’s operating like a guard and has all season, and he’s never been a good off ball mover either, so basically you ask him to do two of the things he’s never been great at
I mean this dudes also in his like 20th season in the NBA and has been called the most unguardable scorer in the league - this is not the first time he’s been doubled, there should be some expectations that he’s able to accurately pass out of the double and contribute even if it’s not his strength and the team isn’t well built
Yeah this is more on their roster construction and lack of FVV. A 37 year old that’s in his 18th season isn’t going to be able to just change how he plays. That’s just not a reasonable ask.
It’s bad roster construction, when vanvleet got injured everyone called out that this would happen
We’re not asking him to be a point forward, we’re just asking him to pass before a double team happens and he can’t do that. That’s not on him, Ime shouldn’t be putting him in that position and maybe playing your only serviceable PG 11m wasn’t a smart move. I hate our coaching.
nice of him to diss KD the way KD dissed him
Nah he was more of a man and said it on camera. KD about to login to the burner and talk smack
No way. KD would never be this direct off the internet.
If he can’t get off a double team he’s lowkey something
How are you in year 18 unable to pass out a double
Well, you also need teammates to be in position for a reasonable pass.
I think everyone is to blame lol. The spacing is horrible. Somehow the defense is able to double team yet still rotate back to the players to guard the 3 once the ball is finally passed. This is a coaching issue. But KD is also passing it far too late in the double it’s like he’s not seeing it
Great vibes, lol
OKC has such a nice path to the WCF (assuming they play an injured lakers, maybe Luka/ar returning but rusty). And not their fault, this is the benefit of being the 1 seed.
Yep I imagine they go sweep back to back and if Wemby is back soon enough he and Jokic will be a long series.
Wemby and Jokic are both 1-1 heading to away games
One of those ties isn’t like the other
OKC is not repeating, book it.
Brother idk how to tell you this
You just guaranteed OKC their chip
*Booker, you mean. We’re about to sweep the series 4-2
Well it helps when the refs keep dicking the suns down
this is more San Antonios fault for not taking care of business against Denver in game 82
If the spurs didn’t bungle game 82, they’d at least play the nuggets second round even if they were first seed
Jabari is the only one out there consistently hustling these playoffs. Speak up
Bari and Amen must be protected at any cost..
Wow that’s bold statement to say to Mr. Dickerson lol
Everyone thought the Magic were the worse vibes team entering the playoffs. Turns out it’s the rockets lol
This has been the most toxic season I can think of since the Harden trade
Sounds familiar 🤣🤣🤣 Fuck KD
Seeing KD finally get the shit he deserves from fans is so cathartic as a Suns fan who never wanted him to begin with.
No hate to the man himself, but I can’t stand him as a player.
I am shocked that a KD team has garbage vibes, oh wait no I’m not!
Lol Houston you are fucked
We knew this 3 months ago if we are being honest. No Houston fan is surprised by the fuckery happening this playoffs.
Houston still needs a coach to implement some kind of offense. Yeah KD needs to be KD regardless of the double team. The rest of the guys on the floor have to act like NBA players and not stand like statues
Shots fired!
KD is a reta*d
Any response Mr. Dickerson?
wtf is happening in that locker room
No wonder we’re losing, the chemistry is off
Lmaooo vibes are cooked
Why is everyone pressed over what he said? It doesn’t sound like a shade at all.
People already came in here with their minds made up lol
So many people reading the (inaccurate) caption and not listening to the actual quote.
It was a positive quote if u listen lol
Social media so lame
Trouble in paradise?
bunch of reddit drama mamas. oOOoooO scaaandalous, the ashleys mfers
Even someone of KD’s caliber can’t help this trash ass team
Burner loading….
I feel like NBA fans overanalyze everything just for the sake of a narrative. The question was about KD, he started the response by holding himself and his teammates accountable including KD them said they’re gonna fix it yet you guys act like he dropped a nuclear bomb. Nba fans are the gossip girls of sports fandom Jesus lol
Wow
Vibes are very low. I still think Houston has the opportunity to turn it around on us, but the chemistry is just not in a good place based off body language from game 2 and stuff like this.
Does anyone else feel like this headline is miss information? The headline miss quotes him “It’s on him to find ways to get himself involved and get to his spots without, you know excluding the double team” leaving out some key context.
The whole quote is him talking about how the team needs to find ways to be aggressive and punish double teams and KD get to his spots when his not doubled. Which is pretty reasonable point rather than saying it’s all on KD like people here seem to think he’s saying.
its also on his teammates to not just fucking stand there watching it happen and instead move off ball. kd can actually make decent bounce passes but his teammates dont even give him the opportunity to throw them
KD saw this and said COACH MY ANKLE IS ACTING UP
Half of his turnovers were due to them not catching the ball
Why tf is Michael shapiro in the title as if thats the guy who said it. Thought it was some asst coach
If it’s all on the players to find their spots and get involved, what’s Ime Udoka doing in Houston? Just getting paid and harassing woman?
Lakers sweep incoming
Damn maybe I just don’t have a good memory, but I can’t ever think of a time when a guy on a team called out a teams star like this during the playoffs. I can’t really think of a time when it has happened period.
Nephews always have something to say (they’re right tho)
Yikes
The funniest thing is that KD dug his own hole, lol
Vibes are truly horrible on this team it’s not even funny man.
The vibes are HORRENDOUS in Houston
God, I wish I could be a fly on the wall and see what the Rockets’ team vibe is rn behind closed doors. You think they all fucking hate KD now after the burner fiasco?
Get off his Dickerson
Dick Dickerson isn’t going to take kindly to this slander
That locker room must be a dumpster fire, holy shit
magine telling a 37 year old with a new ankle injury to just “be KD” harder. incredible coaching insight
Pretty sure the whole idea is that if people double Durant, you make your now-much-easier shots.
Granted that not having a point guard is making everything a lot harder than it needs to be because no one is really playing their preferred game with that true, but this still isn’t the smartest thing to be saying publicly.
Which team will KD ruin next??
Mr Dickerson is not going to like this
Rockets are about to be one of the dumbest organizations. They are about to trade all their young talent. They could not be patient enough to let their young players develop.
This is what happens when you listen to media. You make dumb decisions.
This team went from a 2 seed ( last year) to a 5 seed( this year).
You didn’t need a KD.
Yeah somebody is getting traded
Lakers in ✋🗣️
If Steph wasn’t pulling the defense towards him even when he is off the ball KD would have never won’t those 3 FMVP
Oh my locker room is cooked.
Well, KD has been schemed this way all the way back to the Nets… not a good passer under pressure and the physicality just makes him a non-factor
He is being KD though, thats the thing
Facts never saw a superstar struggle against double team this much and some people call him the “greatest scorer ever” lmao