Kevin Durant has no plans to stop using burner accounts on Twitter to clap back at his critics. On Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson's podcast All The Smoke, the NBA superstar said he was still using burner accounts to go after mouthy trolls online.


In a clip from the interview, Barnes discusses how social media allows players to have a platform to respond to critics and naysayers who previously could say whatever they wanted and have it stand as fact.  

"I'm still going to do the burner thing," Durant said as Barnes and Jackson erupted in laughter.  

"Certain people I'm going to come back at on my regular account. But if I'm trying to do my thing … I got the burner. I just slipped up that one time," he added.

Durant was clowned and criticized when he was caught using a burner account to respond to critics over the past few years. 

After allegedly getting caught up and forgetting to switch accounts, Durant immediately became the butt of jokes and endless memes after a video surfaced of him on a cell phone. 

In previous interviews, Durant has explained that he needed the accounts so that he could speak freely and communicate with friends without having to face scrutiny. The NBA player, however, was criticized for using the burner account to slam his teammates and coaches.

"I wasn't used to that amount of attention, you know, from playing basketball. I wanted a place where I can talk to my friends without anybody just butting in my conversations, or mixing my words, or taking everything out of context because I enjoyed that place," Durant said last year.

"I had an Instagram account that I just used for my friends and family. It was a cool place for me to just be me instead of worrying about Bleacher Report or Barstool … I guess I tried to live a normal life out in the public, I guess," he added.

Durant has not been shy about addressing some of his critics through his official handle @KDTrey5. Just a few weeks ago he went out of his way to slam his former teammate Kendrick Perkins for criticizing him.

The two eventually reconciled after the tragic death of Kobe Bryant.

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