{"id":604194,"date":"2026-02-15T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/604194\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:37:21","slug":"kevin-durant-says-hed-give-up-twitter-before-video-games-jokes-fans-are-taking-it-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/604194\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Says He&#8217;d Give Up Twitter Before Video Games, Jokes Fans Are &#8216;Taking it For Granted&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Houston Rockets star Kevin Durant joked Saturday that fans are &#8220;lucky&#8221; to get to see his trash talk on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">When asked during All-Star Weekend media availability if he&#8217;d rather give up video games or Twitter for the rest of his life, Durant answered: &#8220;I&#8217;mma go Twitter, because they don&#8217;t deserve to hear this God-level like talk I&#8217;m giving to them. They take it for granted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Durant&#8217;s comments came after he poked fun at ESPN reporter Shams Charania for using his phone during Friday night&#8217;s All-Star Celebrity Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Durant is set to play alongside LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Jalen Brunson and Jaylen Brown for USA Stripes during the 2026 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday afternoon at Intuit Dome. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The round robin tournament, which features two American teams playing against the international players on Team World, will start Sunday at 5 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets star Kevin Durant joked Saturday that fans are &#8220;lucky&#8221; to get to see his trash talk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-604194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houstonrockets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116073506016968878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}