Kyrie Irving was answering questions from reporters when life outside our planet became a topic of discussion courtesy of former Boston Celtics point guard Nate Robinson. During media day at the 2018 NBA All-Star Weekend, Robinson and fellow retired player Carlos Boozer were tapped by Sports Illustrated to interview players for their podcast.
To warm him up for the more ridiculous question, Robinson asked Irving about a fictional match-up that would pit him and his alter-ego, Uncle Drew, in a face-off.
“Hey, Kyrie, I have a real question.” Robinson asked, “Who wins on a one-on-one you or Uncle Drew?”
Irving laughed at first then said, “Me or Uncle Drew? Uncle Drew, of course, man.”
Not done with his off-beat queries, Robinson then asked Irving, “Do you believe in aliens?”
“Do I believe in aliens?” Irving asked back before laughing one more time.
Robinson says, “I wanna know.”
“Of course I do,” Irving replied.
Robinson was giving the All-Star point guard such hilarious questions on account of Irving’s belief in a flat earth.
On January 12, Irving revealed on the J.J. Redick podcast that he got his flat Earth theory from, of all places, Instagram but revealed that there wasn’t enough research involved in it before he came out with his conclusions.
Here’s a transcript of his statement on the podcast via SB Nation’s Kristian Winfield:
“When I said it, though, I had been watching a whole bunch of Instagram videos,” Irving told Redick. “Meaning, like, I had these specific pages on Instagram that were like, ’The truth given to you,’ and videos like ‘This is the flat Earth, and the horizons evens out only on flat Earth,’ and I was just like — I didn’t do as much research as I had to do in order to say something like that because I was just ready to blurt it out, like, ‘Flat Earth man it’s a conspiracy theory. They want to get us.’ And when you start thinking about it, it’s just like, the actual intent behind it was just like, ‘Do your own research.’ You know what I mean? And that’s it. A lot of the things that were just told to me, I was just like, ‘Oh, OK.’”
His first time to go public with his flat earth theory was in February 2017.
One thing we could all agree on, however, is that Kyrie Irving's handles are out of this world — flat or not flat.
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