Triple-Double What? Kevin Durant’s alleged new burner account may be the funniest yet.
The NBA All-Star break just ended and Kevin Durant is the target of wild allegations from fans about his social media activity. In other words, it’s Monday.
Durant, the Houston Rockets’ perennial All-Star who just last week signed a new endorsement deal that itself had roots in a social media controversy, is now being blamed—without any evidence—for being behind a so-called burner account which made a slew of derogatory but hilarious posts, even about his own current and past teammates.
Per SB Nation, the nonsense started during All-Star weekend after a fan posted to X about his dislike for the newly-redesigned Larry O’Brien, Defensive Player of the Year, and Most Valuable Player trophies. Durant, who seemingly always has the X app on his phone, engaged from his own verified account, calling the fan “just miserable.”
Other fans soon piled on, with one calling out an X account that had some pretty interesting things to say in the first-person about players and coaches who have been KD teammates.
The exchange, at least between fans, went on for hours. Durant showed himself out, never responding to those who directly questioned whether the account was his. Of course, this being social media, the account could belong to anyone. Other than the suspicions and love of drama from some on the social platform, there’s neither any factual evidence linking Durant to the tweets, nor any good reason for him to address whether he wrote them. In the sports conspiracy-drenched social media universe, Durant either wouldn’t be believed if he denied the account was his, or gotten torched and risked alienating fellow playersif he acknowledged it. It’s a lose-lose situation.
The account in question, @gethigher77, joined X when it was still Twitter back in 2021. It’s now marked as private. Still, many of the tweets are eyebrow-raising, and most are outright hilarious. One references a pair of players as “that lightskin” and “triple double cocaine bear” with some Twitter sleuths guessing those were shots at Stephen Curry and Russell Westbrook, who Durant played with on the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder, respectively.
Durant has never been one to shy away from social media controversy. In fact, his most recent endorsement deal, with skincare brand CeraVe, pokes fun at the fact that fans once trolled the NBA star over a patch of ashy skin on his legs that showed during a game.