Kyrie Irving said his flat Earth theory came from Instagram

Kyrie Irving adopted a theory that the Earth is not round, but flat, last season. Now, in an appearance on the Jan. 12 edition of The J.J. Redick Podcast, Irving admitted his flat Earth theory came from none other than Instagram, and that there wasn’t much research outside of social media on his end before he paraded it as fact.

“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.’”

Irving also said he wouldn’t call his flat Earth stance, or any of the information he found on Instagram for that matter, a conspiracy theory. The videos he found helped fill in “specific details that I felt like was missing in life.”

“They’ll give you stuff on the government, like Geoengineering, and chemtrails and everything else, and it just makes you think,” he said. “And that was the beautiful thing about it — is that it actually made me think. You know It made me think twice about shit.”

Irving first proclaimed to believe the Earth was flat in Feb. 2017 and has doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on that stance ever since. He even had a flat Earth prop at his recent Nike event.

The mystery of Irving’s flat Earth theory keeps getting weirder by the second. But as long as he keeps hitting big shots in the fourth quarter, does it really matter what shape he thinks the world is?

The hoop is round, dammit. For now, that’s all that matters.

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