{"id":611521,"date":"2026-02-19T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611521\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:49:21","slug":"kevin-durant-not-interested-in-twitter-nonsense-after-alleged-burner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611521\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant not interested in &#8216;Twitter nonsense&#8217; after alleged burner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant wants no part of his burner account accusations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Days after alleged messages of Durant ripping current and former teammates leaked on social media, the Rockets star brushed off questions from the media about the internet firestorm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you got to ask these questions but I\u2019m not here to get into Twitter nonsense,\u201d Durant said. \u201cI\u2019m just here to focus on the season, keep it pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Durant, 37, was asked by reporters if he had talked to his Houston teammates about the now-viral messages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38532227\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2261844497.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Durant smiling at the 75th NBA All-Star Game.\" class=\"wp-image-38532227\"  \/>Kevin Durant of the Houston Rockets and Team USA Stripes looks on during the 75th NBA All-Star Game at Intuit Dome on February 15, 2026 in Inglewood, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy teammates know what it is,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been locked in the whole season. Enjoyed our break. Had a great practice today, looking forward to the road trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, screen shots emerged of posts from an X account with handle @gethigher77 that\u2019s alleged to be Durant, who is infamous for his social media activity and online persona.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The account, which has since gone private, criticized Rockets teammates Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn and Jabari Smith Jr.<\/p>\n<p>It also referenced former teammates James Harden, Russell Westbrook and Ben Simmons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While we may never know if Durant was truly behind the account, his past \u201cburner account\u201d activity makes the rumors all the more believable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Durant announced that he was on Threads with a burner account, challenging fans to \u201ccome find\u201d him on the then-newly launched platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three years earlier, Durant admitted to using burner accounts to hit back at those talking about him online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have burners that I use for sure,\u201d Durant said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38532447\" width=\"734\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-121447652.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Durant #7 defending against Anthony Edwards #5 during the 75th NBA All-Star Game.\" class=\"wp-image-38532447\" style=\"width:734px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:1.50367107;display:block\"  \/>Kevin Durant of the USA Stripes Team plays defense on Anthony Edwards of the USA Stars Team during the 75th NBA All-Star Game. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a burner Twitter account still. When people use that burner thing against me they only thought I was on there just to talk s\u2013t. I was really indulging in a lot of different communities on my burners.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his early days with the Warriors, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/09\/18\/did-kevin-durant-expose-his-thunder-bashing-twitter-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Durant appeared expose one of his accounts<\/a>, bashing his former team, the Thunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant wants no part of his burner account accusations.\u00a0 Days after alleged messages of Durant ripping current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,13111,292,194,4066,938,6,211,66,81185],"class_list":{"0":"post-611521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-celebrity-social-media","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-houstonrockets","13":"tag-kevin-durant","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-rockets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116097147424158309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611521","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=611521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}