The talk of All-Star Weekend was expected to be how Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant and his former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate Russell Westbrook would engage one another. The most unforeseen headline has taken over the weekend’s festivities, however: Kyrie Irving’s claim that the earth is flat. Yeah, that is the topic of discussion.
During the Road Trippin podcast with Cavs players Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye, and Fox Sports Ohio sideline reporter Allie Clifton in which Irving was a guest on, the star point guard said he believes the Earth is flat.
“This is not even a conspiracy theory,” Irving said. “The Earth is flat.”
After a few shock reactions, the Cavs floor general continued.
“It’s right in front of our faces. I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us,” he said. “What I’ve been taught is that the earth is round. But if you really think about it from a landscape of the way we travel, the way we move and the fact that, can you really think of us rotating around the sun and all planets aligned, rotating in specific dates, being perpendicular with what’s going on with these planets?”
Well, the topic became the main topic of discussion, and when reporters asked Irving’s Olympic Draymond Green teammate about the claim, he didn’t really deny or call Irving crazy.
Here’s a tweet from Green’s past which may show why he’s in support of Irving’s claim.
Yup Draymond has been pushing this theory for years apparently (@Money23Green)… pic.twitter.com/KL8Dbhm3Ds
— Freezing Cold Takes (@OldTakesExposed) February 18, 2017
Well, not sure what to make of this, so we’ll let the fans come up with their own conclusions.
