NBA’s Kevin Durant has not only heard those jokes about his viral “ashy legs” but also turned it into an opportunity to monetize. He has never been one to let his trolls have the last laugh, and for his new ad deal, he completely leaned into the internet-fueled trolling and even clapped back at some of those jokes.
Kevin Durant hits back at trolls of his ‘ashy legs’ in new ad
On January 27, Kevin Durant took to X (formerly Twitter) to share a video of himself as part of his brand deal with skincare company CeraVe. The video captured the basketball player reading some jokes about him not moisturising his ankles. He posted the clip with the caption, “Y’all keep bringing up my legs…might be time to address it with @cerave?”
The roughly one-and-a-half-minute video began with Durant calmly sitting in a chair as he read tweets about his “ashy ankles.” The first tweet requested the NBA player to moisturise his ankles. Without missing a beat, he responded, “Why are you actually watching my legs so closely, brother?”, narrowing his eyes.
The next tweet said that every time the user forgot to put lotion on their ankles, it reminded them of that one infamous picture of Durant’s dry ankles from 2021. He brushed off the remark, saying he dropped 35 points on 12 shots that night and that mattered far more than the state of his ankles.
One tweet noted that fans had chanted, “You need lotion,” at KD during a game and said it had them “dying.” Durant reacted with a deadpan response, quipping, “Oh, is that funny? Okay.” When another user mused that he wore long leg sleeves to keep his ankles covered, the 37-year-old explained that he wore those to keep the chill out and not because of his ankles.
The one tweet that the star player actually found funny read, “Next time u take a matter into your own hands, make sure it’s lotion.” The final tweet joked that Durant would become the first NBA player to land a “lotion deal.” He simply shrugged it off, subtly reinforcing the very partnership he had signed with CeraVe.
