Kevin Durant’s accidental tweets in which he said he disliked the Thunder organization and playing for Billy Donovan remain the story of the NBA three days later, and for good reason. Durant, to his credit, apologized for what happened, but there are still plenty of questions out there.
Despite his denial, the third person nature of the tweets certainly seem to indicate there’s an alternate, secret Twitter account he uses to argue with trolls in his mentions. Secondly, while he’s seemed genuinely remorseful about his actions, the content of those tweets seemed far less like jokes and far more like some truth, especially his complaint that the roster around he and Russ wasn’t going to be able to win a title.
Unsurprisingly, those tweets haven’t gone over well with his former Thunder teammates, most notably Enes Kanter who subtweeted Durant on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Kanter elaborated on his feelings towards Durant’s tweets in a radio interview with Andrew Bogusch on CBS Sports Radio and criticized his former teammate pretty heavily.
Kanter said he was more sad than angry at Durant, but did rip the star for not having anything better to do with his life as one of the league’s five best players than sit on Twitter and argue with people.
“We now know how he felt about us,” Kanter said. “That made us really sad. We were in a war together when he was here. We won together, we lost together, but we never tried to blame each other. We never tried to blame Kevin or he never tried to blame us when he was here. But these comments – before I’m angry or mad or whatever – it just made us really sad.
…
“You just won a championship. You were the Finals MVP. I understand interacting with fans, but having a fake account and just answering back and trying to have a conversation with them and stuff, come on, man. If you’re Kevin Durant, you don’t do that. He is one of the top five players in the league. Come on, man. Just go do your thing. Play basketball and try to be the best. When he’s doing all these little things to all those people who sit on their laptop and just writing comments – they got no life. Come on, man. You don’t do that.”
Kanter’s points are both extremely valid. While Durant did apologize, it certainly seems to indicate that he felt the Thunder’s roster, including Kanter, wasn’t built to win. That’s not something you want to hear from a star as a role player and it’s understandable why he’d be upset by that. As for the point about needing to do other stuff than coming at people on Twitter, there are plenty that feel that way and think it’s a bit ridiculous that a superstar athlete would be going after people that far beneath them on Twitter and doing so with an alleged fake account.
