You never really know what storylines will come out of All-Star weekend.
This year, Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving sent the interwebs ablaze when he said he believes the earth is flat on teammates Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye‘s podcast Friday.
“This is not even a conspiracy theory,” Irving said. “The earth is flat.”
Irving’s theory isn’t the first time the earth’s curvature has been discussed on the national level over the past few years. Rapper Bobby Ray Simmons, also known as B.O.B., as well as Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs, are at least skeptical that the earth is round.
“I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces,” Irving elaborated. “They lie to us.”
Also aligned with Irving’s thoughts is Nuggets’ swingman Wilson Chandler, who said he agrees with Irving on Twitter Friday.
“Simple explanation,” Chandler told BSN Denver “Just walk outside and use your five senses. If someone didn’t teach you you were spinning on a ball orbiting the Sun, is that what you observe with your five senses?”
Chandler points to NASA Reference Publication 1207 and an article published by the Astronomical Applications Department, a scientific department within the U.S. Naval Observatory as evidence.
Irving also said he believes in a conspiracy theories around Neil Armstrong actually landing on the moon in 1969 and that humans have interacted with aliens.
“For what I’ve known for many years and what I’ve been taught is that the Earth is round,” Irving said. “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 align, rotating in specific dates, being perpendicular with what’s going on with these planets and stuff like this?” Irving asked rhetorically.”
Irving’s comments were generally mocked on social media but there’s a surprisingly large contingent that align themselves with his theory.
Chandler is one of them.

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Rhett Rothberg
Here’s a sense… Sight. Take a pair of binoculars about 30 mins after sunset and point them at the brightest object in the sky. That’s Venus. It looks like a crescent… Why is that? Because it’s a sphere that orbits closer to the sun then Earth, leaving the side away from the sun uniluminated… The same way the moon, also a sphere, goes through phases…
Also, why do airplanes fly over the North Pole when going from the USA to China or Russia? Great circle route…which only works on a sphere…
Good lord….
How does water stick to a spinning ball? Explain that jackass.
Thing called gravity or is gravity fake too
Gravity is just a theory lol. Try again.
If the world was flat you would be able to see any and everywhere from the highest altitude with a strong enough telescope… You can’t because the distance falls off. At 8in per mile on average which is measurable with a levelling laser and tape measure. As a builder I must say you lack practicality and are out of touch with your “5 senses”.
Also the fact that people have sailed and flown around the earth and not fallen off just demolishes any argument based off sensory affirmation.
Water curving and sticking to a ball makes more sense…right..There is an ice wall aka Antarctica. Do research before you debunk flat earth..please! You make yourselves sound so stupid.
The solid ground under the ocean curves duh…
Whether you “believe” in gravity or not it is mathematically quantifiable and able to be visually obsserved. It explains quite simply how water, solids, and gases are pulled downwards to the center.
How the he’ll would an “ice wall” exist in a tropical climate? You realize Antarctica is a continent of solid land covered by ice and not some wall of ice raised up out of the water? My research says you are a troll or inept to the point that you’re a waste of this planet’s natural resources.
Rhett Rothberg
Gravity…. Or duct tape
How about the antarctic ice wall? I will run circles around you debunking the globe you globetard.
Rhett Rothberg
Ah man, the ice wall… You got me… Tell me about it… I’m assuming you’ve been there to see it… Must be amazing!
Explain time zones then. And how would we see a lunar eclipse if the earth is flat
Judah is about to bring the truth to the nations, pay attention and learn or get consumed along with this fake globe world.
This article, the quotes and the comments on this are just pure gold.
gravity is made up word