Trolls' jabs are continuing online after Cleveland Cavaliers' point guard Kyrie Irving made his controversial "the earth is flat" quote, which immediately earned comments no less than from NBA Commissioner Adam Smith. The latter categorically negated Irving, saying "the earth is round." Smith commented, in ject though, that Irving was just "trying to be provocative." But more science and physics professors were dragged to comment on the mainstream media negating Irving while trolls continue to laugh and slam even now on social media.
However, Smith was somehow going to a right direction of the discourse just after lapping up Irving's assertion. He said it was "effective" on Irving but he thought it was a comment directed at the "so-called fake news debate that's going in our society right now in terms of what's reported, and it led to an interesting discussion." Rightly so it was "effective" as Irving made headlines after the All-Star Weekend last week. In the interview he said that the earth is flat and it was not a conspiracy theory. "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."
On Saturday Denver Post carried a forum where U.S. Air Force Academy Professor Craig A. Foster was seriously answering Irving's myth. He labeled Irving's comment as one "bizarre". Craig brought up all his knowledge on empirical science and dared Irving to sit in his astronomy class. More serious commentators worldwide came into the forum, and that is out of the heck of Irving's flat world quote.
But for all their counter-assertions as well as for the inconsiderate trolls, Cleveland Cavaliers creatively expressed in this shirts that actually they did not deny that the earth is flat. The Cavs showed up in the following NBA All-Star Game wearing "Flat World Champions" t-shirts. "Was the quote only for the show? Or for something?" asked some in NBA crowd circles. Currently, the Fresh Brewed Tees is happy selling the t-shirts in brisk. It looks like it is going to sell its first million of t-shirts out of Irving's bizarre quote.
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