Kyrie Irving Apologizes For “Flat Earth” Controversy, Says He Was “Huge Into Conspiracies”

Last year, Kyrie Irving made headlines over his conspiracy theories about the Earth’s shape, in fact, at the time, he said it wasn’t even a conspiracy theory. Instead, he believed it to be fact, declaring, “the Earth is flat.” 

“It’s right in front of our faces,” Irving said. “I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.”

“What I’ve been taught is that the earth is round,” he said. “But if he 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 and all planets aligned, rotating in specific dates, being perpendicular with what’s going on with these planets?” 

“The truth is right there, you just got to go searching for it,” he said.

But now, despite his previous claims, Irving is looking to put the controversy behind him, once and for all. As it turns out, he seems pretty tired of talking about it. 

“At the time, I was huge into conspiracies,” Irving said in a one-on-one interview at Forbes Under 30 summit. “Everybody’s been there, like ‘Yo, what’s going on with the world? You click a YouTube link and it’s like how deep does the rabbit hole go? You start telling all your friends, ‘Did you see that? What this video.’” 

“At the time I was innocent in it, but you realize the effect of the power of voice. And even if you believe in that, don’t come out and say that stuff. That’s for intimate conversations because perception, how you’re received, it just changes. Like, no I’m actually a smart-ass individual… At the time, I just didn’t realize the effect. And I was definitely at that time a big conspiracy theorist. You can’t tell me anything.”

As he concluded his explanation, Irving also apologized for the confusion. “I’m sorry about all that,” he said. “For all the science teachers and everybody coming up to me like, ‘You know I have to re-teach my whole curriculum? I’m sorry. I apologize.”