At this point, it’s safe to say that the scientific community’s relationship with Kyrie Irving is a rocky one. This is largely due to Irving’s staunchness over his belief that the Earth is flat—not round.
Sure the Boston Celtics guard once clarified that walking around and telling people that the planet we all are living on is as flat as a pizza dough was just him trolling the media, but in a guest appearance on UConn women basketball team head coach Geno Auriemma’s podcast show, Irving doubled down on his stand.
“The whole intent behind it, Coach, it wasn’t to bash science,” he said. “It wasn’t to like have the intent of starting a rage and be 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.”
That sound you just heard is the collective groans of Duke’s science professors. It seemed that they didn’t do their job well.
First, Irving obviously didn’t do enough research—if he did at all. Man didn’t set foot on the moon until 1969 and the freshest human footprints on our satellite were made in 1972. Furthermore, Irving could merely follow NASA’s Instagram account to see what Earth looks like from space.
Lastly, we advise Irving to keep that belief to himself. Otherwise, he might soon get socked in the face by Buzz Aldrin.
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