Adam Silver says Kyrie Irving's flat-Earth theory is a comment on fake news
by Guardian sport from on (#2D7AR)
- Cleveland Cavaliers guard made comments on Road Trippin' podcast
- NBA commissioner also discusses how travel ban would affect league
It's perhaps a sign of a placid NBA All-Star weekend when the biggest issue the commissioner Adam Silver had to address is whether Kyrie Irving actually believes the Earth is flat.
The Cleveland Cavaliers guard sparked debate on Friday when comments he made on a podcast started circulating. "If you really think about it from the 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 aligned, rotating in specific dates, being perpendicular with what's going on with these planets," said Irving on the Road Trippin' podcast.
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