Kevin Durant Explains Why He Uses Burners
Is the real kevin durant in this reddit post with us
It’s me
The okc flair would be the perfect disguise ngl
This is my burners burner
Where you going next season
Gotta see what the teams looking like in a month before I make my decision
Nonsense, the hardest road is in San Antonio
It’s late and you got me thinking. Could san Antonio actually find any use out of a KD in replace of fox?
Not like they can do it rn, since fox’s worth is in the shitter and KD spenny af.
Imagine Wemby playing with meister tho. That be wild
I didn’t watch the rockets but I feel like KD would be sick just for our young guys to learn from. KD is a hooper.
Halfway through the season…
The best part of castle slid down his momma’s ass crack, Wemby’s a stuck up french mother fucker, and our coach is a bitch.
-BolieveableJackedMan, Twitter
This is exactly what would happen and this is why people keep recommending that the Spurs get KD. They want to see it happen.
Okay KD, you’re good at this burner shit. It’s you again isn’t it?
You made me envision a Houston practice where KD is trying to teach Amen Thompson to shoot and just giving up after a week.
I don’t like the word but KD saying he was low-key lol
He’d give them a reliable guy to make a shot from anywhere on the court when a play gets blown up or they don’t have any option at the end of a shot clock, someone to give the ball to when they want to slow it down, and someone with length who can help switch from the paint/perimeter so that Wemby isn’t out of place on defense.
IMO Spurs would be one of the best scenarios for him because they have guys who can push the ball already and a franchise center. He can spot up or play his midrange/post game without taking away from everyone else. He’s probably the best plug n play player ever to just drop on an already good team and if you drop him onto the Spurs I think it’s simple for him and not much will be asked of him other than efficiency.
Come to Detroit my brother
Come to Philly
You going to the knicks now that they won?
getoffmyknickerson
This reads pretty dangerously lol
Nahhhh he chose the nets, let him die there in the far away land of Brooklyn
I too am KD.
I’m something of KD myself
No I’m KD
https://imgur.com/T6GKsmI
And me.
Get that flair off you little snake!
He’s MITWestbrook
truly, no one ever defended Westbrook more than 2 people have: MITWestbrook and OKC KD
If true, this would truly be legacy saving.
I wonder if he would still drink Scarlett Johansson’s bathwater #random
i slipped up once, aint happenin again
90% sure his Reddit account is u/New-Mammoth2425
Nice try Kevin. I can tell it’s you trying to throw us off
Nice try Kevin. I can tell this reply is you trying to throw us off.
We are all Kevin Durant
No, it’s not me
Nooooooo
You know what I appreciate how he ain’t even mad, he just like “imma troll that basement dwelling loser back.” Fuck it. The dummy accounts can be lame but whatever, we’re all on forums and reply to dumb shit.
I think the burners thing is hilarious. Wouldn’t be surprised if a ton of athletes also had burners, feels like a decent way for them to say what’s on their mind without having to put their name and face on it
KD uses his to make group chats with yes men that he can vent to about his teammates and coaches lol
So he does it over the internet instead of in real life like the rest of the professional basketball players.
I would prefer he went on a podcast so we could all hear the drama.
And as we all know surrounding yourself with yes men and complaining about your teammates is unusual behavior for an NBA player
We all have group chats with yes men to vent about our coworkers but we just call them our friends
KD uses his to make group chats with yes men
Damn I can’t believe he has group chats with friends where he can openly talk shit
I don’t know anyone else on the planet that has something like that
oh wait
Yeah the passive aggressive digs at teammates are kind of lame but if he wants to box some idiots in the twitter comments, have it at man lol.
Y’all mfers better not be bitchin about your coworkers in group chats either then
People acting like this isn’t absolutely normal behavior are hilarious. We all talk shit about our dead weight coworkers
I don’t do it with anyone who would plausibly tell my coworkers what I said about them!
The problem isn’t the group chats, it’s that they were clearly not with just his friends, it was some random group of NBA Twitter people (some of whom I think it was reported he’s never even met in real life)
You don’t do career-altering shit talk about your coworkers with people who might go public with it
I know a lot of warriors fans still like him a lot, but when he got busted liking that tweet talking shit about Curry thinking he was on a Burner, and talked shit about Kerr, I stopped being a fan.
Honestly, I can imagine it being pretty cathrtic
I’m a nobody, and I have burners. Mostly for specific algorithms and catering my social media to specific things, but still.
I am a videogame developer and even with a tiny niche bit of fame to a small number of people I don’t dare talk shit to anyone on my main account, even if they are saying wildly dumb and offensive things.
So I have another account for that.
Even on reddit most people are essentially using burner accounts. Very few people have their reddit account tied to their actual name.
I also used to think it was funny. I hope to get back there some day.
Find a new slant
Wouldn’t be surprised if a ton of athletes also had burners
Them nephews gotta be told
I have never felt older than the last couple months reading some nba reactionary takes that are just the most recency bias and ignorant shit I’ve ever seen concentrated into 3 sentences or less.
Some takes are more ridiculous than saying that Brunson is a taller player than Wembanyana
It’s become so bad in the last couple years that I swear it’s just bots regurgitating reactionary posts. I refuse to believe that humanity has collectively become that much stupider in the last 5 years. As a US citizen, yes Americans definitely have, but the rest of the English speaking world?
There are SO many of them. Like, 50 a day during the conference finals and finals.
Truer words could not be said.
It’s hard to not have you head swell like a hot air balloon.
I don’t understand why it’s so hard to just be reasonable
Amen brother. I come here to give up on the future of humanity
Don’t worry most of it is bots
I hope so damn.
For most of us, we’re all just speculating about people who will never know our names.
KD is responding to millions of messages that are actually about him though. I honestly don’t think it’s that lame. He should be able to talk shit back to people who give it to him nonstop without getting media blowback over it.
It’s kinda lame to bother when you’re in his position in life, like let us bottom bitches have our day. But also if he wants to clap back like whatever. Lol
I think the passive aggressive digs at the teammates are lame but if he wants to debate some edgelords in the comments, lord knows I have.
I think that’s exactly why he uses burners. It allows him to be “normal” for a bit. Just to talk shit to random idiots online without people freaking out saying it’s KD or media quoting it or whatever. Just a dude talking shit on the web.
I firmly believe if you weren’t on the internet before 2005. You have no digital social skills
Can’t even fault him for trying really. Majority of us here are dummy accounts.
The majority of posters on r/nba are actually Landry Fields, Al Farooq Aminu, Speedy Claxton, Blake Griffin and Tony Delk. Whenever I’m arguing with someone on here I just assume it’s Tayshaun Prince.
Excuse you I’m Detlef Schrempf
No lie, I wanted to include you but I wasn’t sure how to spell your name.
I’m just a dummy
I can 100% understand why he is anonymous and uses a burner. I mean, that’s what we are all doing here right? He’s just doing this exact thing. Nobody at work or my life knows this account.
KD rules. Never blamed him for the GSW move, dude wanted his rings and he was willing to take the heat to get them.
He’s a real one for owning it. It’s probably just bc he got caught but I’m guessing 100% of players are chronically online.
So many people here also have burners for subreddits they don’t want to be seen in
“He need to know too” is admittedly funny.
I kinda respect that he’s open about wanting to be anonymous, ironically.
“I respect his transparency about not being transparent”.
I mean he has just as much of a right to shit post as the rest of us no? How is wanting a burner account not being transparent. Post your full name and address then lol. You couldn’t win 1v1 against him ever lmao
-Devin Kurant
“Devin Kurant” is is my next burner username if it’s not taken.
Transparency isn’t transparency. I’ll explain later
I mean we’re all with anonymous accounts here on reddit we can’t really talk
Sometimes you wanna just tell someone they’re a fucking idiot without any risk of them doxxing you
100%, I mean we’re all using “burner accounts” right now
Tbf he’s one of the most famous athletes in the world and you reliably know where he will be like at least 25% of the year. Other than somehow leaking his actual home address and personal phone etc he’s fairly immune to doxxing.
that’s why there’s no doubt in my mind that he’s on reddit
I’m sure many Celebs have burner accounts, KD is just the one who got caught. Why wouldn’t a public figure want to experience a bit of anonymity? It’s refreshing! Hell, most of us aren’t public figures and we gravitate to anonymous forums like Reddit.
The crazy part is he gives an obvious reasoning for it
Obviously you didn’t want people to know it was you, that’s the logic behind a burner account
But what is the logical motive behind trashing teammates?
That’s where you can get him on being lame. The passive aggressive digs at team mates.
You know what I think is really going on. Kevin Durant is one of the biggest NBA fans in the world, he just happens to be really good at basketball too. And the fact he’s really good at basketball keeps him from being able to do what we do all day. Just talk shit about NBA players we don’t like, without a lot of thought behind it. Fans comes from the root word fanatic for a reason.
The dude just wants to be able to do the same dumb shit we do all the time. He’s just walking a tightrope between being a troll like all of us, but also a part of the show we’re trolling.
Funny you said that because the other day I just watched the NBA All-Star draft they did with him and Lebron on the 75th anniversary. James Harden was the last one to be picked and was added to Lebron’s roster by default.
This was shortly after Harden was traded to the Sixers from the Nets. KD acted all chill and nonchalant all throughout until Lebron asked the hosts if Harden is healthy as Harden had missed games due to injury and Chuck answered, “he got traded, he’s healthy now.” KD totally broke from his chill facade as they all chuckled and he said “oh my god dude.” 😂
I was thinking this dude trynna act cool as if he doesn’t create burners to talk his shit. Wondered what he would’ve added to that if not held back. 😂
It’s a private conversation wtf?
You’re trying to police what a dude says in a group chat with his buddies? You dont ever talk shit about people you work with?
Yall gotta realize they’re really just coworkers…
He said he needed to know LOL
”Why? Because fuck em, that’s why”
Unironically, hell yeah
It’s a hilarious answer
They need to know too.
I’m gonna use that anytime my wife sees me argue with someone..he need to know
They trash, what else?
In his defense (not strongly), this video is edited to make it seem like he’s referring to the teammate trash talk when the All the Smoke video with stack and Barnes was like 6 years ago. KD still denies that was his burner to my knowledge
He needs to vent I guess
They are trash…
He gets high as a kite then hops on twitter, probably not much else to it
They need to know lol
He’s right in saying it takes no more than a few seconds. It’s like people online roasting you where you find time to play video games or comment on something with a wife and kids. Like do you think I spend hours answering a comment? Celebrities have downtime as well.
Also if you’re just on a plane or bus travelling and scrolling on the phone, pfft.
It depends on what he’s doing. The getoffmydickerson leaks was him being extremely insecure and seeking validation.
That’s different to trolling people on Twitter
That’s what it always is. And then he has these interviews where he acts like it’s something completely different and people are like “wow he’s so honest and authentic” …for using burners and talking shit about his teammates.
I mean, of course a bunch of Redditors think using sock puppets and being overly online is cool behavior.
He’s one of the most publicly accessible athletes ever tbh.
also people don’t realize nba players have a lot of free time. i see people who have full time jobs that tweet non stop, idk why they think nba players can’t
Some people are too scared to admit that arguing online is fun
No it isn’t
Yes it is
It’s not. I’d rather do anything else than argue with some dude I don’t know.
You’re right where you want to be bb
ah, here we go again…
That’s not an argument. That’s a flat contradiction
It’s not fun though.
Sounds like something someone who wants to argue would say!
Username checks out 😂😂
Not with that attitude
Yeah, it is too
Fuck off
Got you to type and engage.
😭😭 peak
I’ve had a change of heart and now respect him for the burner accounts.
I respect the principle but, I don’t know how I feel about talking about teammates behind their back. It would be one thing if these were coworkers who had largely no impact on his life, but this is an NBA team whose players respect and grew up with him as their star. Not to mention chemistry is like, really important so KD has I think a responsibility to not talk about them in the way he did.
Yea I don’t get how on earth kd’s burner shenanigans are getting positive pr. He’s a painfully insecure dude that needed to hide his identity so he could publicly trash his teammates and coaches. Idc if everything he said about them is valid, that’s the lamest shit I’ve ever heard
If he’s hiding his identity he’s not really publicly trashing his teammates. Obviously it ended up public because he “slipped up” but otherwise nobody would’ve known.
Plus who hasn’t talked shit about a coworker behind their back before?
Never said he couldn’t have complaints. And for sure, everybody has things to say about co-workers but calling your teammates r*****ed and comparing them to violent dictators is just such petty shit.
And his tweets were public and he was talking shit in them. So he was publicly talking shit about them. His poor efforts at hiding his identity don’t change that. And anybody that was around as social media came up got told 1000 times, don’t put shit on the internet you don’t want coming back to you.
He could’ve talked to plenty of people in person, hell he could’ve gotten 7 therapists so he’s got an hour to talk shit privately every day of the week. He didn’t do that because he didn’t just want to talk shit, he wanted other people to hear his shit. Publicly.
But he was too scared to even stand by his own shit talk until he was forced to.
Lame. As. Fuck.
Edit: not to mention he did this in part to justify making one of the weakest moves by a star in sports history. Dude is just dripping with insecurity, so he’s gotta lash out
this post is the perfect cover up if you were trying to cover up being a KD burner account…
This is what we’ve become.
It’s why we elected an egotistical bully to lead our country…….. because half of the country thinks it’s cool.
Man.. I’m not sure how to feel about it tbh. You’re playing with fire, if it gets out you’re killing your locker room.
He knows he is wrong and yet he double downs on it… lol
The fact that he’s unapologetically himself. And doesn’t gaf
KD is 37 but acts like he’s 17
aren’t most of us here grown as hell hatin on another dude lmao
Plenty of my sports commentary is just being an abject hater at times ngl
He’s just like me fr
he is 17 mentally
“ He need to know too! “
I fucking lost my shit after that
Friendly reminder that very successful and talented people can also have lame ass internet addictions.
Should have asked him about the drones and his callous attitude towards it as well
He’s lame for the burners but still funny af
“He need to know too” 😭
He’s such a fucking awful lockeroom presence, that too cool for school mentality and Charles bus driver comment was 💯
I fuck with his response lmao
He need to know too is a fire line I can’t lie
This is why he can’t win a championship on his own
Burner Boy.
“That man living in his mommas basement needs to know too” is peak KD
I’m sorry but I actually prefer this answer. He was a man about it. It’s still petty but I prefer it to an outright lie or something.
Well, once the leaks happened, everyone knew it was him.
GetoffmyBurnerson
bro is genuinely just a loser lol
You people are all letting him off the hook for this way too easily.
I swear people can do literally anything as long as they can say “yeah I did it, and I’d do it again, fuck you” with a straight face, it’s like something breaks in peoples brains and they’re incapable of holding anyone accountable for anything.
KD i know you seeing this ask for a trade to DC go home bro we done with you
KD is owning it and it’s hilarious. I like how he’s talking about it and admitting it LOL. “I just slipped up that one time” hahaha. Let’s be honest, it’s cool being a celebrity and sometimes they want to pose as normal people to get normal reactions. I get why he uses it and it’s funny that he’s opening up and said he’s still gonna do it LOL
Slipped up more than once it seems. Jabari, Sengun and others probably secretly hate his guts. #LowKeyRegarded
KD I know you’re reading this and I just want to say that you should play the game Outer Wilds it’s very cool
K thx bye
He need to know
I feel him though. I like reddit allowing me to hide my post history.
I use subreddits related to my career path that are incredibly doxxing. Its a small field and relatively easy to identify people. Plus I’m in subreddits where I live and have previously lived.
The last thing I want is for someone I know to find me that way and then locate the pictures I posted of my ex girlfriend taking a dump on me.
You should be able to be anonymous or semi anonymous on the internets
I’m the same way with career subreddits. It gets a little wild how easy it is for people to piece things together just from a few details.
To some extent, I respect that he’s just straight up about it, but at the same time, it doesn’t absolve him of being a dick to his teammates rather than just addressing stuff with them privately. I’ll never respect people who choose to sow discord and gossip rather than just be adults and handle their issues upfront. There’s nothing cool or neutral about the juvenile stuff he was saying about dudes he probably went and smiled at during practice like everything was fine
He should just post as himself now. Might as well.
Honestly, u have a guy who just want to be like anybody on the internet, just a random yapping on random shit, i understand, for those guy who cant go out without being reconize in 2 sec, it must be nice sometime to just be a nobody on social media and being able to be a version of you u cant be outside of anonymity, almost a therapeutic experience for a celebrity
KD is awesome man
Honestly … respect
Sneaky beaky like?
It’s quite charitable really. KD doesn’t care about rich or poor, white or black, male or female. Anyone who don’t know who da fuck he is can be educated!
A man of the people!!
Mr stealth constantly getting leaked
KD is one of the funniest guys in the league
One time on Twitter he called me out for having bad take about the Thunder offense during the playoff last year and ngl I was star struck
The burner thing will never not be funny to me.
Millions of people go online anonymously every day to talk shit but they can’t understand how KD could do THE SAME EXACT THING THEY’RE DOING.
players have been finding ways to get their side of the story out since the days of beat writers taking anonymous quotes in the locker room. barkley and rodman just said whatever they wanted on camera and called it a day. kd just uses a keyboard instead — the approach changes but the instinct doesn’t
Barkley and Rodman said it to the camera because they weren’t chicken shit of the consequences.
KD a legend
I get it. Sometimes punching down is fun
Are only the unemployed supposed to be on Twitter? Or any other social media for that matter.
Easy money sniper a real one
He’s 100% going to troll in GTAVI
Feel like KD is talking to a lot of y’all…. “He need to know too”
People try to defend this but this is just straight up awful behavior from a teammate and supposed team leader.
I too like to troll and mercilously flame people I don’t like, anonymously and without repercussion. It is why I use Reddit.
Okay this is actually really funny. It’s amazing to see him being so open and honest. I love KD
I mean it’s not rocket science
crazy how he doesn’t know how ANTI championship behavior this is. his career arc makes sense now
Do these guys not realize KD isn’t playing basketball 24⁄7 lol
Shit like this makes him likable. I wonder why his teammates don’t like him?
my hope is that the stuff KD said online is stuff he’s said in person to his teammates; otherwise it’s very two faced to pretend to show love irl if you actually have all these negative thoughts. just very inauthentic. judging by how the rockets played after the leak though, don’t think this is likely
Without basketball KD would be one of those https://youtu.be/YdqtRJxXFkM?t=28&is=6b6IRClSOsa0XwgO
Sometimes he just wants to say shit the would probably ruin his brand. We don’t know how many burners he got .
He thinks it’s funny. His teammates didn’t agree.
Cool dude