Kyrie Irving Admits He Was Trolling Everyone With His Flat-Earth Theory
Do you buy it?
Most basketball fans can remember Kyrie Irving and his ridiculous comment insisting that “the Earth is flat.” After spending most of last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers defending his belief, Irving has finally come forward to admit he was trolling us. During an interview on The Toucher and Rich Show on Tuesday, Irving stated it was an “exploitation tactic” meant to test everybody’s reaction.
Irving stated:
“Look, look. Here it is. All I want to do is be able to have that open conversation. It was all an exploitation tactic. It literally spun the world — your guy’s world — it spun it into a frenzy and proved exactly what I thought it would do in terms of how all this works. It created a division, or, literally stand up there and let all these people throw tomatoes at me, or have somebody think I’m somehow a different intellectual person because I believe that the earth is flat and you think the world is round. It created exactly that.
It became like, because I think different, does that knock my intellectual capacity or the fact that I can think different things than you? That was the intent behind it. Do your own research, don’t come to me and ask me. At the end of the day, you’re going to feel and believe the way you want to feel. But don’t knock my life over that.
When I do something, I know my intent. And it proved what I thought it would.”
Though Irving’s comment was just a social experiment, many people and school kids took him seriously including new Celtics teammate Jaylen Brown. Brown stated that Irving “may very well have a point.”
In other NBA-related news, Dwyane Wade signed a one-year, $2.3 million USD deal with the Cavs. Also be sure to read our exclusive interview with Kyrie Irving while he was in Japan.
