Back in May, we reminisced about Kevin Durant‘s delightfully-bizarre old Twitter feed from back when he was a fledgling star, long before every one of his social media posts would be scrutinized to within an inch of its digital life. It was a wonderfully-random assortment of observations on celebrity crushes, empty promises to remain in OKC, and TMI confessionals about something called “slippage,” a late-night phenomenon that is probably best left to the imagination.
But we’re apparently not the only ones obsessed with Durant’s old tweets. Prior to the ESPYs, Grizzlies beat reporter and SLAM Magazine correspondent Alexis Morgan got some of KD’s NBA colleagues to randomly pick one of his old tweets out of a hat and read it on camera. The result was pure gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8lz3FOmmY
Karl-Anthony Towns, Corey Brewer, Andre Drummond, Zaza Pachulia, Zach LaVine, and several others could barely hold it together when having to read some of Durant’s more iconic tweets, which purely for our own personal amusement, are collected below.
Erykah badu thicker than a kindergarten pencil
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) July 3, 2011
@DaRealAmberRose I kno this is random but I seen u in LA and u got the meanest bald head ever!!! Better than mj, Charles Barkley n all dem!!
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) July 15, 2010
Scarlett johanneson I will drink ur bath water…#random
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) January 17, 2011
Girl you like a bacon and egg sandwich..you look good
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) September 23, 2012
#uever wake up n the middle of da night and think about a girl u like or startin to like and sit at da edge of the bed n say damn i want her
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) February 24, 2010
Morgan even got KD’s mom in on the fun, and thankfully, she managed to avoid some of the more sexually-charged tweets from his past. Another thing that can’t be emphasized enough is that Durant hasn’t deleted any of these, no matter how cringe-worthy some of them are.
He’s proven that he can be a good sport about it, just as he was when he helped troll everyone watching the ESPYs last week with his fabricated reaction to Peyton Manning’s joke about him hopping on the Warriors’ bandwagon. We just wish more athletes would stick to their guns instead of frantically deleting tweets that weren’t well-received or claiming they got hacked.