re: Kyrie Irving's "flat earth comments were just an experiment"

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Eventually, Irving said, "All I wanted to do was to be able to have that open conversation," before going more in depth. Here is Irving's response: “It was all an exploitation tactic. All it did was, it literally (spun) the world — your guys’ world — into a frenzy. And it proved exactly what I thought it would do in terms of how all this works. It created a division, or literally, like, stand up there and let all these people throw tomatoes at me or like, have somebody think that I’m somehow this different intellectual person because I think that, or because I believe that the world is flat and you think the world is round. It created exactly that. It did exactly that, to where it became, like, because I think different, does that ever knock my intellectual capacity? Or the fact that I can think different things than you can? ... Like, do your own research. Don’t come to me and ask me, ‘Do you think the earth is flat?’ I was just like, ‘Bro, at the end the of the day, you’re gonna feel and believe what you wanna feel, but don’t knock my life over here.”

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