In case you missed Kevin Durant’s blunder on Twitter yesterday, here’s a short recap: He apparently has an anonymous account which he uses to argue basketball with fans (and defend himself). He (seemingly) accidentally tweeted about himself and mentioned the Thunder and OKC Head Coach Billy Donovan in a negative light. At Tech Crunch in San Francisco yesterday, Durant gave a statement about what happened (h/t Anthony Slater):
“I have another Instagram account, but that’s just for my friends and family. So I wouldn’t say I was using it to clap back at anyone. I use Twitter to engage with basketball fans. I happened to take it a little too far. That’s what happens sometimes when I get into these basketball debates about what I really love, to play basketball. I don’t regret clapping back at anybody or talking to my fans on Twitter. I do regret using my former coach’s name and the former organization I played for. That was childish. That was idiotic, all those type of words. I apologize for that. I don’t think I’ll stop engaging with fans. I really enjoy it and it’s a good way to connect us all, but I’ll scale back a little bit right now and just focus on playing basketball. I’ll move on from that, it was tough to deal with yesterday. I was pretty mad at myself. Definitely want to move on and keep playing basketball.
Durant mentioned an alternate Instagram account, but didn’t directly say that he has another Twitter account. However, his admitting that he “used his former coach’s name” is more or less an admittance, unless he plans on trying to argue that he randomly started tweeting in the third person.
