Michael Rapaport has taken to Twitter to share his dismay after an exchange with NBA star Kevin Durant. Screenshots of the conversation reveal that Durant, the Brooklyn Nets star, used homophobic and misogynistic language to assail the actor.
“I receive threats and disgusting messages DAILY, but never in my wildest dreams did I think @KDTrey5 would be among them,” Rapaport captioned the screenshots. “The [snake emoji] himself is now threatening me, bringing up my wife and wants to fight. This is supposed to be America’s sweetheart right? #ImDaRealMVP”
I receive threats and disgusting messages DAILY, but never in my wildest dreams did I think @KDTrey5 would be among them. The ? himself is now threatening me, bringing up my wife and wants to fight. This is supposed to be America’s sweetheart right? #ImDaRealMVP pic.twitter.com/l1VQfGMMRF
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) March 30, 2021
As for the conversation itself, it appears Rapaport, the 51-year-old actor known for roles in Prison Break and The Big Bang Theory, began by advising Durant on an interview strategy last October. The notoriously thin-skinned Durant, however, didn’t appreciate the unsolicited advice.
“I did the interview you d*ckhead,” he wrote. “Tell your baby daddy Chuck to be better at his job.”
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In another message, Durant went further. “You a bitch for even caring how I do in an interview,” he said. “All u do is c*ck suck other men for attention. Trump didn’t pay attention to your sorry ass so now u wanna use everybody else to get views and laughs. Your life is a joke you F*ckin c*ck sucker.”
In still other messages, Durant referred to Rapaport as a “c*nt,” a “c*m guzzling bitch,” and a “p*ssy.”
Subsequent to the exchange, Durant confirmed the messages are legit in a tweet of his own, implying that the messages were part of a history of crazy communication between the two. He also issued an apology to Rapaport…though not to women or LGBTQ people.
Me and mike talk CRAZIER than this on the regular and today he’s pissed….My bad mike, damn!!
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) March 30, 2021
“Me and mike talk CRAZIER than this on the regular and today he’s pissed….My bad mike, damn!!” Durant wrote.
Rapaport appeared to be less than impressed.
No we don’t Pussy.
Don’t ever threaten me or speak on my wife Pussy.— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) March 30, 2021
“No we don’t P*ssy. Don’t ever threaten me or speak on my wife P*ssy,” he tweeted back at Durant.
The NBA has yet to respond to the messages.
In the past, the league has chastised players, including Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo, for using homophobic language on the court.
Jason Collins, a former NBA center who is openly gay, is an NBA Cares ambassador working to make the game safe for queer fans and players. There are currently no openly gay active roster players on the 30 NBA teams.
Cam
It’s weird because if you’ve ever heard Rappaport on the Howard Stern show, his entire schtick is to tell staff members in his fantasy football league all the ways he is going to anally rape them. Staff members have blocked him because they’ll get multiple voicemails like that.
Hdtex
That’s a LIE
JB
Aren’t these two grown men??? What’s wrong with them?
j41005
There are studies that show how people (usually men) who rage against LGBTQ folks and also use vulgar and immature language do so in order to hide their own sexual insecurities.
amanwithanedge
kobe bryant = rapist. kd is a homophobe, and uglier than hell.
SFMike
We’re drowning in a world of trash culture that has made morons wealthy without doing any real work or creating anything that actually benefits society. Sports morons and actors get paid millions while nurses and teaches get s**t. That’s MURIKA!
Kieran
Preach!
jeters
xmeet.fun – great project for adults who want to find a sexual partner!
Rock Star
NBA and even pick-up game ballers talk lots of trash on the court but this is just beyond disgusting. The NBA needs to go to school for gay tolerence.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. JFK
Invader7
Another reason I don’t follow or support the NBA !!! Some of those players are ignorant douche bags !!! I bet Durant is a big ole bottom…
Fahd
Feel dirty reading this. I don’t like Rapaport much; he does have that sticky aspect to him, so I get Durant’s overall point, but actions have consequences. The NBA shouldn’t put up with him texting slurs like that and should act. Obviously he’s just a sad case who can’t express himself without resorting to language that should be beneath him and us all. With all the money he has, a communications director and/or etiquette coach might be in order.
Paulie P
So Rappaport is hurt that someone came for him they way he goes for others?
MOE-X
Michael Rapaport is a fake ally to marginalized communities he was angry that the music coming out of the Black community during the BLM protests didn’t fit his romanticized version of Civil Rights we don’t hear Marvin Gaye when the police are beating and killing us for no damn reason. He doesn’t care about the gay community but he does know that anything that is deemed homophobic from someone Black will be judged far more harshly than if it came from someone white, Jonah Hill and Alec Baldwin are repeat offenders and have only flourished after making multiple homophobic comments. Rapaport’s comments about Cardi B. and other Black women performers is highly racist and misogynistic he needs to stay out of Black folk’s business.
Chrisk
Jonah Hill apologized and Alec Baldwin called someone a queen. Big whoop. Durant’s just a dumbass that doesn’t know how to act like an adult and is barely literate. That about all you can say.
“stay out of Black folk’s business.” Yeah, if that’s not racist I don’t know what is.
Chrisk
This is what happens when you give ignorant people a platform just because they’re rich and they can throw a ball or whatever.
Kieran
This casual homophobia in our society goes on because it is tolerated and winked at. There is an unspoken, oh well, “boys will be boys” attitude toward homophobic insults that allows this most time honored bigotry to go on unabated. Saying the usual lame “I’m sowwy” and “some of my best friends are gay” after getting caught is hardly enough to stop it. We need the kind of punishment that would be meted out to White athletes that would engage in racist language. Until that actually happens we shouldn’t be surprised that Kevin Durand style homophobia continues to flourish in our culture.
Kangol2
Have you no shame, @Kieran? You supported a president for four years (Don the Con) that was and a party that IS actively enabling homophobia and transphobia as we speak, yet I have not ever seen you denounce Don the Con, the GOP or anything else involving them on here. Casual homophobia is a problem–and it is not just Black athletes who engage in it–and deserves to be condemned, but as worse, perhaps far worse, are politicians actively legislating to oppress LGBTQ people. They may smile in your face but when they have signed laws allowing businesses, including “religious” hospitals, to turn you away because you’re gay, bisexual or transgender or they think you are, we’re talking about real, destructive discrimination and oppression.
Mr. Stadnick
Why bother covering this complete trash? Is the audience that puerile?
ceeb
Michael Rapaport has said homophobic things in the past and retweets anti-LGBT content. Why hasn’t he been cancelled yet? The guy is a total douche.