Kevin Durant was recently a guest on the "Pull Up with CJ McCollum Podcast."
Part 1 was released last week and Part 2 dropped on Tuesday.
After a brief introduction on Part 1, McCollum wasted no time getting into Durant's social media habits.
"You made the waves recently responding to people on Twitter," McCollum began. "We have to talk about this; I always tell people we are normal human beings -- we got feelings, we got emotions, we go through depression, we go through happy moments, sad moments -- why did you respond?"
For Durant, it's pretty simple -- he enjoys interacting with fans and talking about basketball:
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"Well, I'm always on Instagram -- well not always; I mean, when I have time -- we scroll through the Explore page and through your tagged pictures, I do that ... so I've been seeing this kid just been having these basketball analyses and he has like 50,000 followers so he kind of got a little voice. People actually looking at this stuff.
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So you know, there was some comments, obviously I'm gonna disagree about some stuff. And I'm like, 'Yo, bro. You don't know what you're talking about. I understand you love the game, you love different players. Bro, relax. Now you got 50,000 people following you with this garbage.' Exactly what I said.
Obviously, because of me and I play for the Warriors, which everybody hates the Warriors -- I don't think they have anything against me it's just the fact that I play for the Warriors. So when I respond to the kid, it's like I did it in a sensitive manner. But I've seen you respond to a lot of people as well. I've always seen Kobe Bryant respond to people on Twitter as well just reminding them about some stuff ... I could go down the line of players in every sport that do that, but I guess just because it's just me...
I'm just chillin, on the Gram, so I can't be like, 'Nah man, I'm not gonna be who I am.' I've been doing the social media for a minute -- since I first started. That's what it's for. I got tweets in the archive since I first started in the league. It's who I am, that's jus what I do on social media. And it's pretty simple -- when I want to comment I do, if I don't -- probably I don't want to. I think people just blow it out of proportion because it's me."
You may think that it's silly for Durant to engage whatsoever. But it's fun for him and he isn't going to change (it also results in some great content).
Hey Dirk Nowitzki -- do you follow any of the Durant stuff on social media?
"I don't follow him on Twitter, but obviously it's tough not to see what's going on," Dirk said on The Dan Patrick Show on Friday morning. "I just think overall and in general, I don't know why you would get engaged with fans talking trash.
"I like having fun with it. I get hit up on Twitter every now and then in my mentions. ‘Hey, you're old, go away. Retire.' Or something like that. To me, it's fun. You're not supposed to be sensitive about it. That's how I look at it.
"I'm not sure why KD feels the need to respond to some of the stuff, because, I mean, Twitter is just such a place for tough guys and a lot of hate. I take it with a smile on my face. You can't take yourself too serious on there."
Wait. Hold on. Dirk doesn't follow Durant on Twitter?
Have a great weekend everybody!
Drew Shiller is the co-host of Warriors Outsiders. Follow him on Twitter @DrewShiller
