Kevin Durant's teammate breaks silence on burner account rumors

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Houston Rockets guard Fred VanVleet spoke out on Kevin Durant's burner accounts.

On one of his more recent podcast episodes, Unguarded, VanVleet came to the defense of Durant and his burner accounts, praising him for his authenticity.

“You know the lies is always more appealing than the truth anyway," VanVleet said. "You know what I’m saying? That s— is about entertainment at the end of the day.

"We had some weird things this year. And this is one thing that I didn’t deal with Kawhi. Because KD is the other superstar that I played with, which was Kawhi. But the media didn’t bother Kawhi. And I think it’s because his personality, right? You know he don’t give a f— about that s—. And I think that the gift and the curse with KD is that he’s so open and he’s so authentic and he’s so approachable and he’s so him that it leaves room for the f—ing clowns to jump in and add they own twist on the s— and then if he don’t come out and directly say no or go against that, which is what they want.

"There just so much room for like clickbait farming and s— like that when it comes to him.”