Kblaze8855
03-15-2019, 07:53 AM
I suspect he will try to get past it quickly and since he produces the show I bet they wont press him too hard. Not like its a real reporter asking questions. Its gonna be Jay Williams.
May still be worth a watch though.
Kevin Durant has a complicated history on social media. He’s built a massive following of 38 million fans across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. He was accused of using a Twitter “burner” account in 2017 to criticize his former team, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Last summer, Durant and All-Star guard C.J. McCollum traded jabs on Twitter, with Durant writing about McCollum: “Snakes in the grass boy I tell ya.”
Durant tries to clear the air on his social media past in the latest episode of The Boardroom, a new series from ESPN and Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures billed as a look at the business of sports via “candid conversations with athletes, tech moguls and sports executives.” The show is executive produced by Durant and his business partner Rich Kleiman.
The third Boardroom episode, set to be released on streaming service ESPN+ on Friday, is focused entirely on social media and features Durant, McCollum, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, WNBA star Breanna Stewart and Ronnie Singh, better known as “Ronnie2K” and the public face of the wildly popular NBA 2K video game. There is also a segment on sports video highlight firm Overtime, whose cofounder Zachary Weiner was a 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 selection.
Eighteen months ago, KD was accused of not switching his Twitter accounts in a reply about why he left Oklahoma City.
He’s offered murky responses in the past about the incident, like where he told GQ that he had just woken from a nap, and “it just felt like I was on the outside looking in at a conversation.” During the Boardroom episode, host Jay Williams asks Durant to break down the burner account incident.
“I wasn’t used to that amount of attention from playing basketball. I wanted a place where I could talk to my friends without anybody butting in on my conversations or mixing my words or taking everything out of context because I enjoyed that place,” says Durant.
A couple of the burner account tweets he accidentally put on his real name in case you forgot...
“He didn’t like the organization or playing for Billy Donovan. His roster wasn’t that good, it was just him and russ,” Durant tweeted.
“Imagine taking russ off that team, see how bad they were. Kd can’t win a championship with those cats.”
Its funny....but as many of you are on here posting under the wrong name then deleting it and reposting on your real ones apparently unaware that mods can see deleted posts...a lot of you dont need to talk much.
Granted....you arent 200 million dollar athletes who are brutally insecure and feel a need to hide behind a burner to fight online haters....so you can still talk a little.
May still be worth a watch though.
Kevin Durant has a complicated history on social media. He’s built a massive following of 38 million fans across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. He was accused of using a Twitter “burner” account in 2017 to criticize his former team, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Last summer, Durant and All-Star guard C.J. McCollum traded jabs on Twitter, with Durant writing about McCollum: “Snakes in the grass boy I tell ya.”
Durant tries to clear the air on his social media past in the latest episode of The Boardroom, a new series from ESPN and Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures billed as a look at the business of sports via “candid conversations with athletes, tech moguls and sports executives.” The show is executive produced by Durant and his business partner Rich Kleiman.
The third Boardroom episode, set to be released on streaming service ESPN+ on Friday, is focused entirely on social media and features Durant, McCollum, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, WNBA star Breanna Stewart and Ronnie Singh, better known as “Ronnie2K” and the public face of the wildly popular NBA 2K video game. There is also a segment on sports video highlight firm Overtime, whose cofounder Zachary Weiner was a 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 selection.
Eighteen months ago, KD was accused of not switching his Twitter accounts in a reply about why he left Oklahoma City.
He’s offered murky responses in the past about the incident, like where he told GQ that he had just woken from a nap, and “it just felt like I was on the outside looking in at a conversation.” During the Boardroom episode, host Jay Williams asks Durant to break down the burner account incident.
“I wasn’t used to that amount of attention from playing basketball. I wanted a place where I could talk to my friends without anybody butting in on my conversations or mixing my words or taking everything out of context because I enjoyed that place,” says Durant.
A couple of the burner account tweets he accidentally put on his real name in case you forgot...
“He didn’t like the organization or playing for Billy Donovan. His roster wasn’t that good, it was just him and russ,” Durant tweeted.
“Imagine taking russ off that team, see how bad they were. Kd can’t win a championship with those cats.”
Its funny....but as many of you are on here posting under the wrong name then deleting it and reposting on your real ones apparently unaware that mods can see deleted posts...a lot of you dont need to talk much.
Granted....you arent 200 million dollar athletes who are brutally insecure and feel a need to hide behind a burner to fight online haters....so you can still talk a little.