Kevin Durant is a top-5 social media user among NBA players. This is for two reasons: First, he is among the most engaging basketball players in the league and seems to legitimately enjoy talking about the game with fans. Second, he used to tweet like someone who wasn’t in the NBA, which was as weird as it was hilarious.
He posted one tweet that really illustrated this. It let us all know that he had a massive crush on Scarlett Johansson in the weirdest way imaginable.
Scarlett johanneson I will drink ur bath water…#random
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) January 17, 2011
This was tweeted in January of 2011, when he was a 23-year-old star who looked like he was going to run the league alongside James Harden and Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City. Since then, he’s left the Thunder, as has Harden. He is turning 29 next month, and while he hasn’t run the league in the way some may have expected, Durant did just win his first ring.
Oh, and he still has a massive crush on Johansson. Bill Simmons asked Durant a reader question about the tweet — namely if Johansson is aware of it — during a recent podcast appearance, and Durant let the world know that his feelings on this matter have not changed. (Head to the 58:36 mark of the podcast to hear Durant’s answer.)
“I hope she is aware of it,” Durant said. “It’s strange now cuz I look really, it made me look crazy, but now it make me look real cool. I would, I actually love Scarlett Johansson, and I would do that … and she’s single now.”
So, uh, kudos to Durant for admitting it’s strange, and I guess for sticking to his guns? I don’t know, saying you’d drink someone’s bath water is a little much for my sensibilities, but seeing as how Durant’s handle on Instagram used to be @easymoneysniper, this must have been a way for him to shoot his shot.
