Kevin Durant doesn't know how to ignore Twitter trolls. We assume that he's tried to do it. But over the last year, he's taken shot after shot after shot at trolls who have invaded his timeline. And even though he doesn't have a Twitter account himself, Charles Barkley has taken note of it. So when he was asked about KD's reactions to Twitter trolls during a SXSW panel recently, he was, as you'd expect, very honest with regards to how he feels KD should handle trolls.
"Kevin Durant is a great, great player and great guy," Barkley said. "So some kid he played against in high school made a thing that he kicked all of these NBA guys' butts in high school and he put KD in there. Meanwhile, this guy is a plumber. So Kevin Durant and this guy are arguing with each other and I am reading this in a newspaper thinking, 'Dude, you are Kevin Durant. Why are you arguing with a plumber? There's nothing wrong with being a plumber, I might add, but you are Kevin Durant!' Same thing with RGIII and Colin Kaepernick. I'm like, 'Dudes, why are you arguing with someone on Twitter?'"
Barkley then offered up an analogy about sports fans that he finds helpful.
"I always use this analogy when it comes to sports fans," he said. "Just because you watch Grey's Anatomy doesn't mean you can perform an operation."
Barkley provided a lot of other great quotes during the SXSW panel, too. He talked about the time he gained 20 pounds to try and convince the 76ers not to draft him, why he loves golf (and sex) so much, and, of course, his thoughts on analytics. You can read what else he had to say here.
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[via Sports Illustrated]
