OT: Duke Alum - Kyrie Irving and Sparty Alum - Draymond Green Believe Earth is Flat
It appears Kyrie Irving and Draymond Green are flat earthers. FYI, the Earth is round.
Per the initial podcast where Kyrie unleashes this foolishness:
“This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat. “It’s right in front of our faces. I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.”
While serial ball-kicker Draymond doesn't proclaim that the Earth is flat, he's definitely not a believer in a round earth:
“Who’s to say that picture is telling the truth? I can make a round picture with my iPhone today, with the panorama camera and make it look round."
I hope Kyrie is trolling, but based on his follow up comments he appears to really believe this stuff. Draymond is a Sparty, so not much surprise there.
Links to the various stories:
http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/kyrie-irving-flat-earth-draymond-gre…
http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2017/02/18/draymond-green-kyrie-irving-…
February 19th, 2017 at 2:26 PM ^
Ehh, he might've lived longer, but pancreatic cancer suuuuuuuucccccckkkkkks. I don't disagree with your point that people will often have blind spots for such things, but in his case, it's also equally possible he saw the writing on the wall with his diagnosis and thought, "well, chemo probably isn't going to work, might as well try some smoothies".
February 19th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 3:07 PM ^
Certainly a fair point... I played the odds thinking he had an exocrine tumor like 95ish percent of patients with pancreatic cancer have. I don't know how "easily treatable" his tumor could be considered though. I mean, it's a disease with a 55% five year suvival rate (best case, early diagnosed and resected pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor) but that is still definitely better odds than drinking carrot juice or whatever his smoothie plan was.
February 19th, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^
I recognize this is dickishly insensitive, but all I can think of when I read stories like this is that it's natural selection in action.
February 19th, 2017 at 12:53 PM ^
STATS DON'T LIE; PEOPLE WHO USE STATS LIE.
February 19th, 2017 at 5:39 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 10:53 AM ^
Irving said the earth is PHAT. And Green said when he plays he tries to make balls flat.
Get the story straight.
February 19th, 2017 at 11:02 AM ^
Let's send them to the precipice and watch them fall off.
February 19th, 2017 at 11:07 AM ^
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February 19th, 2017 at 4:26 PM ^
Yeah, this is one of the dumbest pernicious myths. Almost as bad is people who say it was Columbus and not Magellan('s remaining crew) who proved the world is circumnavigable. Columbus was a shitty mathematician who thought the world was much smaller than what everyone knew and what the ancient Greeks proved to be the case. Ferdinand's scholars were right to scoff at him.
February 19th, 2017 at 12:33 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 12:53 PM ^
Football season needs to get here quick
February 19th, 2017 at 1:01 PM ^
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February 19th, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^
I've seen the video, and Paris Hilton's one talent was marginal at best.
February 19th, 2017 at 4:14 PM ^
Who the fuck cares?
February 19th, 2017 at 5:02 PM ^
that the topic of Draymond Green's and Kyrie Irving's beliefs concerning anything would provoke such a long and somewhat articulate disscussion?
February 19th, 2017 at 5:34 PM ^
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February 20th, 2017 at 9:13 AM ^
I'm on the side of the millions and millions of vaccinated people who don't get the illnesses they were vaccinated for.
February 19th, 2017 at 7:14 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 7:17 PM ^
Guy's.. don't make fun of them. Maybe they just have a rare disorder that no one has discovered yet where they only preceive the world around them two demensionally.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:24 PM ^
Anyone who thinks the earth is flat should watch the Stephen Hawking series called "Genius":
http://www.pbs.org/show/genius-stephen-hawking/
He uses very simple experiments to prove to anyone who isn't an idiot why scientists make certain claims (including any episode where he explains why the earth is round with a simple laser experiment). Having said that, these morons are probably just seeking attention.
February 19th, 2017 at 11:37 PM ^
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