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A Twitter Spaces conversation had been ongoing on Friday evening entitled ' Kevin Durant is not top five'. In it, fans were discussing Durant's game, before he shocked all the listeners by entering the conversation himself and requesting the microphone.
Durant first listened for a few moments as they discussed his resume and why they are of the belief that he is not a top five player in the NBA, before the superstar then spoke and bashed them for the opinion.
He said: "I just think how y'all even look at the game is whack as f***. You factor in team success when you talking about players. I just think how y'all consume the game is trash, like are you good or not?
"I mean some things could be that simple. Are you just good or not? I mean, a lot of people have seen it for a long time brother and it's OK. These lists don't really mean nothing anyway, so why are you getting so upset about 'em?"
Durant is known to be very active on social media, with him even admitting that he uses burner accounts after years of speculation that he'd argue with fans on his game through different accounts.
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In 2017, he was exposed for having burner accounts on the app so he could tweet out defences for leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors the previous year. A tweet that was said to be from his burner wrote: "He didn’t like the organisation or playing for Billy Donovan. His roster wasn’t that good, it was just him and Russ."
And two years later, Durant admitted that those tweets. On Barstool Sports' The Corp with Alex Rodriguez and Big Cat, he said: "I still have burners that I use for sure. I 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***. I was really indulging in a lot of different communities on my burners.
Kevin Durant, of the Phoenix Suns, speaks during a media availability as part of the 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah, on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)"When I deleted it I was like ‘these people really made me delete what I enjoy, which is my burner account.’ So, I got another one."
While those fans arguing with Durant do not believe him to be a top five player in the league, he certainly remains as one of the very few superstars capable of leading a team to the championship - having shown that with the Warriors in 2017 and 2018, when he won the NBA Finals MVP.
Durant moved on from the Warriors in 2019, joining the Brooklyn Nets where he stayed for three-and-a-half years, before being traded to the Phoenix Suns before the NBA Trade Deadline in February.
For the 2022/23 season, Durant averaged 29 points, 8.7 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game on 52 percent shooting from the field. He also shot 33.3 percent from deep in an encouraging showing across his 16th NBA season.