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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith took major issue with NBA star Kevin Durant and his well-documented burner accounts on Friday’s “First Take.”
After Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched the company’s new text-based social media site to rival Twitter this week, KD shared that he was already on the platform with his burners ready. Something Stephen A. didn’t appreciate the next morning:
Let me address the issue of burner accounts. Obviously, I don’t have one. I don’t have one, never thought about having one, don’t need one. ‘First Take’s’ two hours every day, that’s 10 hours a week. In my case, I’ve never worked less than 45 weeks a year in my career. I’ve never worked less than 300 plus days a year in my career. I’m that dude. I put in the hours.
What I’m trying to say to you is even putting in the hours, it don’t stop me from having the ‘Stephen A. Smith Podcast.’ That’s even more trouble that I could potentially get into. I don’t give a damn. Here’s the point I’m trying to make, if you’re gonna say something, stand on it.
Ain’t nothing affecting the bottom line of KD. Burner accounts? As much as they hold us accountable? As much as they sit up there and talk about us… these same people that will talk about burner accounts are the same ones that will challenge you to man up. Nah, we ain’t giving them that pass.
This is far from the first social-based feud the pair have had. Last year, the two went back and forth about Smith’s place in sports media after Durant took issue with one of his takes.