Kevin Durant’s name was back in the social-media blender this week, and this time the Rockets star wasn’t the one posting.
It started on Nov. 5 when X user Drew, who goes by @ThunderHusky17, quote-tweeted another account and wrote, “Found Kevin’s new burner.” The joke caught fire fast, piling up more than 412,000 views within hours as fans argued over whether the account really belonged to Durant.
It didn’t. The account in question belonged to a fan who says he’s just a regular supporter with a soft spot for Durant.
The back-and-forth began in a thread involving Oklahoma City Thunder fans and Thunder podcaster Nick Stoeckel. An account called UKD, posting as @Kfo1234567, stepped in to defend Durant from criticism.
“What has he said that’s untrue or u disagree with cus I’ve seen Russ say that team wasn’t good enough either??” UKD wrote. “So your mad because a pro athlete said his front office made bad decisions (trading harden for basically nothing)???”
That was enough for Drew to fire off the burner joke. To plenty of Thunder fans, the tone sounded exactly like Durant jumping into the conversation himself.
The joke landed because Durant has already built a reputation for this kind of social-media chaos. Back in 2017, while he was with the Golden State Warriors, Durant appeared to accidentally post criticism of the Thunder and coach Billy Donovan from his main account while talking about himself in the third person. He later acknowledged the posts and apologized, and the whole thing became one of the NBA’s most famous online blunders.
The burner chatter popped up again in February 2026, when fans tied Durant to another anonymous account during All-Star weekend. After a Rockets practice, Durant waved off the speculation and said, “I know you’ve gotta ask these questions, but I’m not going to get into Twitter nonsense.”
That history is why any account defending Durant with extra energy, especially in a thread with Thunder fans, is going to get the burner treatment.
UKD handled the attention pretty well. A few hours after Drew’s post blew up, he responded with a joke of his own.
“Bro I’m crying I’m just a dude from London that rates kd just got back from work too,” he wrote. “100 new followers appreciate the love though.”
He followed that up with another post:
“Bro I’m crying I’m just a dude from London that rates kd 😂just got back from work too 100 new followers 😭appreciate the love though”
What made the whole thing stick is that there’s still a real basketball argument underneath the joke. Oklahoma City traded James Harden to Houston in October 2012, months after the Thunder reached the NBA Finals with Durant, Russell Westbrook and Harden. Harden later became an MVP, and that core never got back to the Finals together.
Durant has addressed that trade himself. On the Mind the Game podcast in 2025, he said the team “exceeded expectations” in 2011-12 and suggested the organization wasn’t ready for that level of success that quickly. “We sped up the timeline, all of us,” he said.
Thunder fans, now watching a championship-era team built by the same front office, aren’t interested in giving that take much room. Durant supporters, meanwhile, see him as someone who’s just telling the truth about what happened. That tug-of-war is exactly how a London fan ended up on hundreds of thousands of timelines.
In the end, the whole thing played out like a perfect little social-media trap: one sharp reply, one well-timed joke, and suddenly a random fan was the center of an NBA burner-account rumor.
Drew got his viral hit. Thunder fans got another laugh at Durant’s expense.
UKD picked up 100 new followers. And Durant, once again, was dragged into the conversation without actually being in it.
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