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The Kevin Durant burner phone saga has a new character because Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. recently opened up about his own account. After the two-time champion missed Game 6 and the Houston Rockets were eliminated from the playoffs by the Los Angeles Lakers, his social media habits are back in the spotlight.
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The drama supposedly ended in February after screenshots from a private account, @gethigher77, went viral during All-Star Weekend. But with the Rockets’ season officially ending, the rumors have again garnered serious attention.
In this vacuum, the Brooklyn Nets star casually admitted that he uses a burner account, too, and his reason is quite surprising.
Michael Porter Jr. makes his own burner confession amid Kevin Durant drama
Porter Jr. was already discussing the KD situation when the conversation turned personal. He acknowledged the locker room risk of leak culture before coming clean himself.
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Appearing on streamer N3ON’s show this week, the 27-year-old forward said, “I have a burner just to check up on people once in a while… cause I been blocked.”
When N3ON pressed him, “Are you a stalker?” Porter laughed it off and replied, “Nah… I might want to check up on the person that blocked me.”
He was also measured about the KD situation itself, noting that authenticity in leaked screenshots is genuinely hard to verify in the AI era. “Everything with AI, with this, with that, you don’t know what’s real. So I’m not about to say it’s for sure him without knowing,” he said.
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Still, he admitted that if a teammate actually did talk trash about the rest of the team in a group chat, it would definitely ruin the locker room chemistry. However, he is right about the fallout. The Rockets had to arrange a serious meeting after those controversial screenshots leaked.
ESPN’s Tim MacMahon reported that the players met privately to address the tension and tried to move on. But the incident added to an “emotional roller coaster” of a season for Durant and the Rockets.
The season didn’t have a happy ending. Whether the locker room drama caused a real disconnect or they just couldn’t win without their best player, the Rockets are now out.
Porter Jr.’s confession is a reminder that burner accounts aren’t just a KD thing. The only difference is that most players aren’t honest enough to admit it on a livestream with 200,000 people watching.
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