And it proved what I thought it would.'īased on Irving's comments during the interview with Auriemma, however, it is unclear exactly where Irving stands on the flat versus round debate. But don't knock my life over that. When I do something, I know my intent. At the end of the day, you're going to feel and believe the way you want to feel. Do your own research, don't come to me and ask me. '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. 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 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. All I want to do is be able to have that open conversation. In September, Irving was asked about his belief on 98.5 The Sports Hub's Toucher & Richwhere he essentially said he was trolling the media: onward believed that the Earth was flat,' a statement. I'm telling you, it's right in front of our faces. Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell once said that, 'no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. Per Hayden Bird of, Irving said, ' The Earth is flat. In February, Irving appeared on the Road Trippin'podcast with then- Cleveland Cavaliers teammates Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye.

Is the earth flat?