2017年，杜兰特被发现在推特上运营着几个小号，并以球迷的角度为自己离开俄克拉荷马辩护，当时场面甚是尴尬。
本来这两句回复杜兰特明显是要用小号来维护自己，但是一时脑热竟然忘记了换号，让大号发了出来，当他发现到了这个错误之后，马上就删除了这两条推特，但是为时已晚，已经被网友截屏。
The forward has a history of using burner Twitter accounts and one slip up in 2017 revealed his online alter ego.
这位前锋曾有过使用推特小号的历史，而2017年的一次失误暴露了他在网络上的自己。
Three years ago, Durant forgot to click that all-important "switch accounts" button and was caught defending himself on his verified account. Rookie mistake KD.
三年前，杜兰特忘记点击那个十分重要的切换账户的按钮，被发现他用他的认证账户为自己辩护。新手错误啊，KD。
NBA fans roasted Durant over the mistake, and Joel Embiid even joined in to tease Durant over #BurnerTwitter.
NBA球迷们因为这个失误而嘲笑杜兰特，乔尔·恩比德甚至在推特上调侃杜兰特。
杜兰特在自己参与制作的一档谈话节目《The Boardroom》中，谈到了自己为何要开社交媒体的小号，是因为自己想要过上普通人的生活。
内心深处，KD感觉自己还只是个普通人，不习惯任何事情都被所有人关注，希望能有自己的空间。
"I try to live a normal life out in the public …"
我想尽量在公众场合过一个正常的生活...
“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.
“我不习惯打篮球时受到那么多的关注。我想要一个地方，在那里我可以和朋友聊天，没有人打断我的谈话，没有人把我的话混在一起，没有人断章取义，因为我喜欢那个地方。
I had an Instagram account that I just use for my friends and family. Like, it’s a cool place for me just to be me instead of worrying about Bleacher Report or Barstool mixing up anything I want to say.”
我有一个 Instagram 账号，只给我的朋友和家人看。就像，这是一个很酷的地方，让我做我自己，而不用担心媒体把我想说的话胡乱解读。”
虽然一次被抓，但在最近的采访中，杜兰特透露，自己并没有停止使用小号。杜兰特表示：“我现在依然还在用小号，我还是会这么做的。”巴恩斯则认为，如果他是杜兰特的话，他会选择用大号来表达自己的观点。
杜兰特接受巴恩斯采访视频
Thanks to All The Smoke's latest episode, we now know he still has that burner and is ready and armed with Twitter fingers whenever he sees fit.
多亏了All The Smoke的最新一集，我们现在知道他还留着那个小号，随时准备好了，只要他觉得合适，他就会用Twitter的手指武装自己。
"I'm still gonna do the burner thing. I'm still gonna do that," Durant said.
“我还是会留着小号，我仍然会这么做，”杜兰特说。
"Certain people, I'mma come back on my regular account. But if I'm just trying to do my thing, I want to dip in, you know what I mean? I got the burner ... I just slipped up that one time."
“某些人，我会用大号回复。但如果我只是想做我想做的事，我就想吃个瓜，你明白我的意思吗?我用过小号怎么用…只是有一次说漏嘴了。”
"I like Twitter. I mean… if I see something on there that I want to respond to, I'm just going to do it. It's not like a predetermined thing. I just kind of see it, scroll on it," he said.
“我喜欢推特。我的意思是，如果我看到我想回应的东西，我就会去做。这不是预先决定好的。我只是看到它，滑屏幕滑到而已，”他说。
The 10-time All-Star said he likes challenging people online. "I like the platform and any chance I get to give somebody a piece of my brain, I want to do it. Especially a former teammate who's talking shit, or a fan."
这位10次入选全明星的球员说，他喜欢在网上挑战别人。“我喜欢这个平台，只要我有机会给别人讲述一些我的想法，我就会去做。特别是一个以前的队友或者是球迷在说废话。”
He adds that he feels he says what a lot of players want to say, "Just giving my perspective on how I feel about things because I feel like a lot of players, deep down, they feel how I feel, but I just say it."
他补充说，他觉得他说的是很多球员想说的话，“只是给出了我对事情的看法，因为我和很多球员一样，
在内心深处，他们和我有同样的感受，但我只是说出来了。”
