Kevin Durant isn’t backing away from the online back-and-forth any time soon.
The Rockets star, who has built a reputation as one of the NBA’s most active players on social media, opened up on the Boardroom podcast about why he keeps engaging with fans who try to needle him. His message was blunt: if people come at him, he’s coming right back.
“People know if they say something to me, Imma say something back. You're going to leave this interaction feeling f*cked up. Imma hit you in the soul,” he explained.
Durant was then told he might be the most “rage-baitable” player in the league. He pushed back on that idea, saying his responses usually come when the conversation turns personal. In his view, that’s exactly the side of him people are hoping to provoke.
“It’s just way personal s**t like, I am way better than you at life, I have accomplished what you wanted to do in life, this type of stuff.. You can cheer for me and react to a player but you want to see this part inside of me.
So why not?” he said.
"People know if they say something to me, Imma say something back. You're going to leave this interaction feeling f*cked up. Imma hit you in the soul."
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) August 27, 2026
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Durant also framed it as part of the same competitive instinct that drives him on the court, saying he’s fine with giving trolls one of their “core moments” in life. And if anyone is expecting him to cool off online, that doesn’t sound likely. Durant said he tends to come up with his replies “on the fly,” which means the rage-baiting figures to keep going.
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