Burner Phones and More: Watch Kevin Durant Explain His Random Old Tweets

Kevin Durant recently joined Bleacher Report’s “Take It There with Taylor Rooks.” The now Brooklyn Nets superstar opened up about a lot of things in a 17-minute interview, discussing several topics, starting from all the Knicks rumors to Kobe Bryant to his love of hip-hop.

Kevin Durant and his old tweets

Taylor Rooks pulls some of the receipts on Kevin Durant’s Twitter account to get some answers on the newest “Take It There.” The Nets superstar also goes on about getting comfortable living in NY, writing rhymes with other NBA players and more.

When the interview was nearing its end, Durant was asked to explain some of his old tweets. First of all, he was asked what was going through his mind when he tweeted this in 2010: “Twitter is better than goin’ to da club.”

According to the former Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors player, this tweet was born after he had a revelation:

“I was having a whack night in the club that night,” he narrated. “Nobody was dancing. Everybody was just staring at each other, and I was like, ‘This is what I come here for?’ I guess I had an epiphany. When I have an epiphany in my mind, sometimes I say it, and that was one of those times.”

Besides, in 2009, Durant tweeted about a traumatic experience he had as a child when he “got robbed by a dog.”

“I was in kindergarten, walking to the bus by myself, and a dog came out of nowhere,” said Durant. “I’m reaching in my pocket when I got on the bus. ‘Damn. I can’t eat today.’ It must have fell out of my pocket. And I was like, ‘I got robbed by a dog. The dog got me.’” 

Kevin Durant’s burner accounts

During an episode of ESPN’s “The Boardroom,” Jay Williams asked Durant to give his side of the great Burner Twitter saga of 2017, and while Durant didn’t address his disguised responses to haters, the two-time Finals MVP said that he created the accounts to be able to communicate freely with family and friends.

“I wasn’t used to that amount of attention, you know, from playing basketball. I wanted a place where I can talk to my friends without anybody just butting in my conversations or mixing my words or taking everything out of context because I enjoyed that place.

… I had an Instagram account that I just use for my friends and family. Like, it’s a cool place for me just to be me instead of worrying about Bleacher Report or Barstool mixing up anything I want to say.”

So what went wrong? Well, Durant simply forgot to switch accounts when replying to people online in 2017. The result was Durant sending tweets that addressed himself in the third person.

With his burner accounts and Twitter clapbacks, Durant can come off as mean, angry or petty at times. Rooks said their interview shows different sides of the Brooklyn Nets superstar.

“He’s smiling, joking, reading his old embarrassing tweets,” Rooks said. “There’s some really nice, human moments in a way you don’t really see KD.”

KD certainly has a lot more stories to share and he’s always willing to talk about them with fans on Twitter.