Kevin Durant insists that he does not have a burner account, he was just very tired.
The Golden State Warriors’ second or maybe fifth in command had a GQ profile come out this week that dove into his Twitter controversy, where he sent critical tweets of Billy Donovan and the Oklahoma City Thunder that, perhaps most offensively, were written in the third person.
Many thought Durant had a second “burner” account, or perhaps multiple accounts on social media, with which to defend himself from haters. But Durant made it clear he does not have extra Twitter accounts. In fact, his defense was that he was very sleepy.
The piece describes the situation and Durant’s reaction to the controversy that exploded when it happened, calling it a “dissociative episode” where he felt like he was watching a conversation happen from afar.
The Internet was alive with a gleeful debate about whether Durant had a second, secret Twitter account. That wasn’t the case, he told me. He did write the posts, but on his own account, he said. He described it as a dissociative episode: He woke up from a nap, and “it just felt like I was on the outside looking in at a conversation. I had to walk in and just be like, ‘Nah.’” Either way, he appeared thin-skinned and a bit disingenuous, inexplicably absorbed in criticism during the pinnacle of his professional life. Even worse was what he’d actually said in the posts: After a year of maintaining a scrupulous, respectful silence about his old coach and his old team, he’d finally let slip what seemed to be the truth about his feelings regarding the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Durant obviously regrets writing what he did and posting it that way, but it’s still an extremely strange incident. Him not having a burner account somehow makes it all seem less plausible when you think about the surprising honesty and syntax he used in the tweets. But I suppose we have to take him at his word here.
