Know all about what Kyrie Irving had to say about his flat earth theory
Kyrie Irving seems to have a penchant for getting caught in bad moments. With every passing day, Kyrie is becoming a controversial NBA superstar. He is a great basketball player while on the hard court and an NBA champion, but his off-court actions and statements are quite questionable.
Recently, Kyrie allegedly shared an antisemitic tweet which led to him being suspended from Brooklyn Nets. Even after giving his reasons for sharing the tweet and apologizing later, it is unclear when Kyrie will again return to the court to play in the NBA.
However, this is not the first time that Kyrie Irving has landed himself in deep controversy. A few years back, Kyrie went straight ahead and said that he believes that the ‘earth is flat.’ Kyrie Irving’s claim of flat earth rattled the NBA and the world outside of it.
In February 2017, Kyrie appeared on the Road Trippin’ podcast with former Cleveland teammates Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye. This podcast was recorded in an airplane. During this podcast, Kyrie said that he believed that the earth is flat.
Kyrie said in the podcast, “This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat. … It’s right in front of our faces. I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.”
“If you think about it from a landscape of the way we travel, the way we move, and that — can you 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?”
This comment of Kyrie’s quickly grabbed social media’s attention and they reacted heavily to it. Some supported Kyrie while others were against Kyrie’s stance. Kyrie was ridiculed a lot for his ‘flat earth’ theory.
Then, a few months after the podcast with Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye, Kyrie was again asked about his belief on 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Toucher & Richwhere.
Kyrie then said that he was essentially ‘trolling the media.’ He made the remarks to prove the point that in the age of social media any story can spread rapidly. He further added that he made the ‘flat earth’ statement to promote conversation.
Again, On October 2017, Kyrie explained in an interview with UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma about his theory that whether the earth is flat.
On Auriemma’s Holding Court podcast, Irving said the following on the topic: “The whole intent behind it, Coach, it wasn’t to bash science. It wasn’t to like have the intent of starting a rage and being seen as this insane individual. When I started seeing comments and things about universal truths that I had known like I had questions.”
“When I started actually doing research on my own and figuring out that there is no real picture of Earth, not one real picture of Earth—and we haven’t been back to the moon since 1961 or 1969—it becomes like conspiracy, too.”
After the whole drama unfolded, Kyrie actually came around and apologized publicly.
On October 2018, Kyrie attended an event in Boston organized by Forbes. The event was Forbes Under 30 summit.
While speaking at the conference, Kyrie was asked to clear once and for all which side does he take on the “debate” over the Earth’s shape.
Kyrie then stated that in 2017, when he made the statement, he was big into conspiracy theories. The attention from his comments made him realize the ‘power of voice.’
“Even if you believe in that, don’t come out and say that stuff. That’s for intimate conversations because perception and how you’re received, it changes. I’m actually a smart-ass individual,” Kyrie said.
Speaking about the impact of his statement, Kyrie also said, “At the time I didn’t realize the effect. I was definitely ‘I’m a big conspiracy theorist. You can’t tell me anything.’ I’m sorry about all that. For all the science teachers, everybody coming up to me like, ‘You know I have to reteach my whole curriculum!’ I’m sorry. I apologize. I apologize.”
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