NBA players approach social media during the playoffs differently. Many subscribe to the LeBron James “Zero Dark Thirty-23” method (which is still a terrible name) of logging off entirely to “lock in” on the playoffs and avoid any distractions that social media can present. Others taper their social media usage back some and exclusively post “Lock In” messages before every game so that we all know they’re focused on the task at hand.
Others still remain extremely active online, and that’s alright too. Usually.
Kevin Durant is arguably the most online superstar in all of professional sports. This has endeared him to fans at times and caused quite the controversy at other points. The great burner scandal of 2017 will go down as one of the strangest sagas in this era of NBA basketball, when a player was quite literally caught firing off takes meant to be from an anonymous account from fans.
One would think that experience would lead Durant to understanding that at all times someone is watching and paying attention to his social media activity, and everything from likes to replies can pretty easily be seen by everyone. However, Durant refuses to go offline, and his latest Instagram like activity indicates he has yet to quite learn all of his lessons.
KD liked the comment 👀 pic.twitter.com/E9KSy72n6Q
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) April 23, 2018
Oh, Kevin. This is the post in question that featured the comment that got the like from Durant, who either no longer cares if people realize he left OKC because of Russ, still hasn’t figured out people can see his likes, or has big dumb fingers that accidentally hit buttons and doesn’t realize it.
The simple fact is, Kevin Durant will never log off. He may not be posting regularly, but he is apparently still scrolling through the comments and his mentions and can’t help but smash like on occasion, even when he shouldn’t. Anyone else without the history Durant has on social media could use the accidental like excuse, but Durant has exhausted his goodwill to use that excuse even if it’s what actually happened (it’s alarmingly easy to like something on Instagram on accident).
UPDATE: In the least surprising turn of events in this story, Durant is indeed claiming it was an accident that he liked the comment.
Kevin Durant tells me it was a "total accident" that he liked a comment on Instagram about Russell Westbrook. Was just an honest mistake.
— Royce Young (@royceyoung) April 23, 2018
Again, this still begs the question of why he would be scrolling through the comments on that post to begin with, but there’s your explanation for the like itself.
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