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Durant apologizes for 鈥榠diotic鈥 tweets
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Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant apologized on Tuesday for exchanges with fans on Twitter about his departure from Oklahoma City Thunder, branding his comments 鈥渃hildish鈥 and 鈥渋diotic鈥.
Durant, who was speaking while appearing on a Tech Crunch panel in San Francisco, said he regretted posting remarks that cited former coach Billy Donovan and teammate Russell Westbrook.
The NBA Finals MVP was caught out on Twitter after using his official account on the social media site to reply to comments from a fan asking why he left Oklahoma City. 鈥淗e didn鈥檛 like the organization or playing for Billy Donovan,鈥 Durant wrote in the third person. 鈥淗is roster wasn鈥檛 that good, it was just him and Russ (Russell Westbrook).鈥
US media reports have said Durant had meant to post the remarks from a fake Twitter account. Durant on Tuesday took ownership of his gaffe 鈥 but vowed to continue replying to fans.
鈥淚 use Twitter to engage with fans,鈥 Durant said. 鈥淚 happened to take it a little too far. That鈥檚 what happens sometimes when I get into these basketball debates about what I really love, to play basketball. I don鈥檛 regret clapping back at anybody or talking to my fans on Twitter. I do regret using my former coach鈥檚 name and the former organization I played for. That was childish. That was idiotic, all those types of words. I apologize for that.鈥
Durant said while he would continue to interact with fans, he expected to scale back his social media activity. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think I鈥檒l stop engaging with fans. I really enjoy it, and it鈥檚 a good way to connect us all, but I鈥檒l scale back a little bit right now and just focus on playing basketball.鈥
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