Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant admitted on Tuesday to posting comments on Twitter that were critical of his former team and coach.

The eight-time NBA All-Star sent the tweets on Sunday in response to a fan who asked for “one legitimate reason” for Durant’s decision to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Warriors in July 2016. Writing in the third person, Durant responded by saying “he didn’t like the organization or playing for Billy Donovan” and that “his roster wasn’t that good, it was just him and [Russell Westbrook].”

Eagle-eyed users on the social networking platform quickly noticed the responses came from Durant’s verified feed and not, as likely intended, from an anonymous burner account.

🐗 1-1 / ✭ 1-1 (@harrisonmc15) KD has secret accounts that he uses to defend himself and forgot to switch to them when he was replying to this guy I'm actually speechless pic.twitter.com/9245gnpa3c

“I use Twitter to engage with fans,” Durant said on Tuesday during a panel at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco. “I think it’s a great way to engage with basketball fans. I happened to take it a little too far. That’s what happens sometimes when I get into these basketball debates about what I really love, to play basketball.

“I don’t regret clapping back at anybody or talking to my fans on Twitter. I do regret using my former coach’s name and the former organization I played for. That was childish. That was idiotic, all those type of words. I apologize for that.”

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Durant departed the Thunder in free agency after a season that saw Oklahoma City win 55 games and come with one win of the NBA finals only to surrender a three-games-to-one lead in their best-of-seven Western Conference finals series with the Warriors.

After signing with Golden State in the offseason, Durant helped the Warriors to a second title in three years, capturing NBA finals Most Valuable Players honors.

“I don’t think I’ll stop engaging with fans,” said Durant, who stopped short of admitting he uses alternate Twitter accounts to discuss himself in the third person. “I really enjoy it and it’s a good way to connect us all, but I’ll scale back a little bit right now and just focus on playing basketball.

“I’ll move on from that; it was tough to deal with yesterday. I was pretty mad at myself. Definitely want to move on and keep playing basketball.”