Kyrie Irving, you may have just found your new tag team partner.

Charles Barkley told Rich Eisen on his show "The Rich Eisen Show" that Shaquille O'Neal is dead serious about his belief that the earth is flat. By the looks of it, looks like both really had a good laugh about it as shown on the video clip posted on The Big Lead.

"Shaq wondered out loud 'is it closer to get to LA or go to the moon?'", teased the 54-year old Barkley. "And he said 'it's probably closer to get to the moon because when I step outside, I can see the moon (but) I can't see California'," he added.

Barkley also mentioned that when they saw Shaq isn't joking, they went to Google and looked for some facts and tried explaining it to him. The effort, however, went in naught as Shaq kept insisting the fact that he can see the moon but not California.

"There are three ways to manipulate the mind, what you read, what you see and what you hear," said the 45-year old O'Neal as he started his explanation about his claim. He raised that the first thing taught in school is that Christopher Columbus was the one discovered America but there were fair-skinned people with long hair already occupying the land even before he arrived.

When driving, he said that driving from Florida to California and the road appeared flat and not going up and down at 360-degree angle. "You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It's not. The world is flat," concluded Shaq.

The scientists, however, isn't happy about the Hall of Famer's claim.

According to Bleacher Report, Geology and Geophysics professor Sam Bentley said that O'Neal should be careful of his words he's telling the public. "People who have a big public presence have a responsibility to be considerate of their bully pulpit when they make statements like this," the professor reiterated.

"If Shaquille O'Neal is claiming that the Earth is flat based on his observations driving from California to the East Coast, then he is not using all of the available data," concluded Bentley who, coincidentally, is teaching at O'Neal's alma mater, LSU. Despite the information, Bentley said that they are still proud of what he's done but he needs to be more responsible about the information that he is telling the media.

Veritasium's Derek Muller supported Bentley's sentiments, saying that the internet was made to make people more educated but since confirmation bias is internetn's weakness, people tend to ask if earth is really flat instead of debunking the idea.

My prayers are all up for these two not to recreate this scene just because of flat Earth claims.

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