Cavs All-Star Guard Kyrie Irving: “The Earth is Flat”

Remember those World history classes in school that taught all of us how Christopher Columbus came to the new world and how many at the time felt that the earth was flat?

Well, Cavs All-Star guard Kyrie Irving must have been sick that day.

Irving is in the news again over a rather crazy statement that he made on ‘Road Tripping with R.J. and Channing’ (a podcast featuring Kyrie’s teammates, Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye) where he was asked a simple question on if whether aliens exist.

Irving fired back at his teammates, asking them “Do you think the Earth is round?”

After Jefferson and Frye both answered correctly, Kyrie came back with a rather eye-popping response. “This is not even a conspiracy theory,” Kryie said. “The Earth is flat.”

Say what?

Irving went on to explain that there are “particular groups” and a mysterious “they” who want to convince us Earth is round.

“It’s right in front of our faces,” he said. “I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.

“What I’ve been taught is that the earth is round,” he continued. “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.”

“How are you gonna put ‘planets’ in quotations?” Jefferson asked the All-Star who made the go-ahead shot in game seven last year against the Warriors.

“Because, everything that they send—or that they want to say they’re sending—doesn’t come back,” Irving explained. “There is no concrete information except for the information that they’re giving us. They’re particularly putting you in the direction of what to believe and what not to believe. The truth is right there, you just got to go searching for it.”

Here’s hoping that after basketball Kyrie can maybe take some classes and figure out that no matter how you look at it – he’s wrong.