Suns’ Kevin Durant claps back at heckling sports bettor
Kevin Durant usually spends plenty of time responding to users on X, but early Saturday morning, in the aftermath of the Suns’ win against the Warriors, the superstar directed his reply toward an angry bettor.
“It’s a reason why i never bet on your bitch ass,” one user wrote in a post.
“Brokeyyyyy. You’ll be aight, u won’t miss that lil 4 dollars u lost tonight,” Durant replied around three hours later.
While it’s unclear what specifically the X user bet on Friday, the exchange didn’t stop there.
“So we gotta be broke because you’re inconsistent? shut yo old ass up clown just retire already,” the same X user replied back one minute after Durant’s post.
“We?? Im talkin to you, nobody else…stop betting!! You aren’t good enough at it,” Durant wrote two minutes later.
The other X user replied to Durant one final time — writing that he wasn’t good at basketball and claiming that “you sold a lot of people ima just be the person to say it goofy” — but the 36-year-old, who will play in his 15th All-Star Game later this month, declined to extend the back-and-forth again.
Durant, averaging 27.1 points per game this season, managed just 19 points on 6-for-13 shooting during the Suns’ victory Friday, with Devin Booker’s 31 points pacing Phoenix against Durant’s former team.
It helped the Suns improve to 25-22, though they currently sit just in eighth place in the Western Conference entering Saturday’s game — and teetering on the edge of the playoff picture despite the duo of Durant and Booker.
Durant also ended up in a tense exchange with Gary Payton — seated in the second row of Chase Center — during Friday’s win, with Payton, whose son Gary Payton II plays for Golden State, telling ESPN that they were “just talking junk.”
“It’s always good rapport with the older generation,” Durant told reporters, according to ESPN. “They respect me. I respect what they’ve done. But there’s some players that still got that competitive edge and wish they were still out there and still keep that with them everywhere they go. That’s GP, and I respect that about him. So any time, any chance I get to see him, man, we going to talk this trash until we die. It’s all love.”
The Suns traveled to Portland after the game and will face the Trail Blazers on Saturday night, searching for a seventh win across their last nine games.
