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Rockets great Vernon Maxwell: Kevin Durant’s ‘secret page’ tearing team apart
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Kevin Durant Burner
The Houston Rockets are riding the struggle bus, and Vernon Maxwell has pinpointed that the problem is Kevin Durant 's alleged burner account.
The Rockets legend, who won back-to-back NBA titles with Houston in 1994 and 1995, said on the "All The Smoke Podcast" with Matt Barnes that Durant's alleged burner account , where he purportedly was talking about his teammates behind their backs, has killed the team's chemistry.
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"Like I said last year, all we need was KD," said Maxwell, who once thought Durant was the missing piece to the championship puzzle. "We got KD, a guy to roll the ball out to get you a bucket.
"But now everybody [is] standing around watching KD."
Kevin Durant acknowledged previously that he uses burner accounts. NBAE via Getty Images
The alleged Durant drama stems from X account @gethigher77, which claimed the future Hall of Famer was calling out his teammates, with accompanying screenshots.
"They said some s–t about some secret page KD did and talked about some of the players on the team, and it's f–king split the goddamn guys up and guys don't like to high five each other no more," Maxwell said.
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Whether the team's chemistry is off is unknown, as no Rocket teammates have publicly called Durant out for the alleged burner account.
But Maxwell claims its evident.
Durant, 37, has a history of using burner accounts, which he acknowledged in 2023.
"No motherf–kers want to bump chest no more with each other," Maxwell continued. "Everybody just split up the whole f–king team. So, I don't know man. It's a lot of s–t going on out there in Houston."
Vernon Maxwell talks about Kevin Durant hurting the chemistry in Houston. All The Smoke Podcast
The Rockets enter Wednesday's clash with the Lakers at 41-26 and in fourth place in the Western Conference, though they are just 8-7 in their last 15 games and 4-5 in their last nine.
Houston did lose center Steven Adams for the season, though, hurting their frontcourt depth dramatically, and guard Fred VanVleet is sidelined with an ACL tear.
