Tweet of the Night: Jared Dudley shows how to deal with a troll, Kevin Durant shows stamp of approval

When you’re a professional athlete (or anyone famous) with a countless number of people following you on Twitter, there is always the challenge of dealing with faceless trolls on a daily basis.

Take this tweet, for example.

@JaredDudley619 @Ra5ik yo Jared, you’re fucking trash bruh. That’s why they traded your bum ass away lmao

— Master Wongton (@Ching_Ling666) August 29, 2014

The troll, of course, is referring to the unexpected trade that sent Jared Dudley to the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday. Again, this kind of heckling happens on a regular basis for most athletes in the NBA.

There are a number of ways to go about something like this. The easiest thing to do is simply ignore or block the account. Retweeting the message is another option, so that those who support you can do the fighting for you. You could also give the troll an earful through direct messaging, but that has proven to be a costly option in the past.

So what’s the best way to handle such ugly tweets without getting into trouble? Dudley has the answer:

RT @Ching_Ling666: yo, you’re fucking trash bruh. That’s why they traded your bum ass away(maybe but im in league and u watching me lol ) — Jared Dudley (@JaredDudley619) August 29, 2014

The response was perfect: Dudley shows the distasteful comment, acknowledges that it doesn’t bother him in the least, and manages to make the troll look silly by showing the irony of it all without being too mean or making himself sound like an egomaniac the way LeBron James once did.

Kevin Durant, who was also having a little fun with twitter on Thursday, saw Dudley’s tweet and thoroughly enjoyed the ownage: