Athletes, especially basketball players, often leave school early to turn pro. While the allure of making millions of dollars to toss a ball into a metal hoop is understandable, there are some definite advantages to finishing up on one’s education. Steph Curry, for example, doesn’t believe that man ever walked on the moon. The NBA star says he doesn’t believe in conspiracies theories but believes in the moon landing hoax conspiracy theory. This is something that US history and basic logic classes could have helped clear up for him.
The Golden State Warriors guard was on the Winging It podcast and he really was winging it. Curry asked the hosts if they believed we ever landed on the moon. When the hosts replied “no” Curry agreed and then said he didn’t want get any conspiracies theories going.
“We ever been to the moon?” Curry asked.
“Nope,” responded multiple hosts.
“They’re gonna come get us. I don’t think so, either,” said Curry. “Sorry, I don’t want to start conspiracies.”
But Curry definitely did “start conspiracies” because another person on the podcast said, “You gotta do the research on Stanley Kubrick.” This is in reference to the conspiracy theory that the late director helped fake the moon landing on a soundstage. There is also a related conspiracy that Kubrick left many clues to the “fake moon landing” in his film The Shining.
NASA caught wind of Curry’s disbelief in the 1969 lunar landing or the 9 other times Americans went to the moon and ivied to educate him.
“We’d love for Mr. Curry to tour the lunar lab at our Johnson Space Center in Houston, perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets. We have hundreds of pounds of moon rocks stored there, and the Apollo mission control. During his visit, he can see firsthand what we did 50 years ago, as well as what we’re doing now to go back to the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay,” said a NASA spokesman in a statement.
Curry joins a long list of anti-science conspiracy theorist pro basketball players. Former NBA great Shaquille O’Neal believes the Earth is flat.
“It’s true. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat…So, listen, I drive from coast to coast and this shit is flat to me. I’m just saying. I drive from Florida to California all the time and it’s flat to me. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle and all that stuff about gravity,” said O’Neal on a 2017 podcast.
O’Neal also thinks that white people inhabited the Americas before Christopher Columbus didn’t discover them.
“Listen, there are three ways to manipulate the mind; what you read, what you see, and what you hear. In school, the first thing they teach us is: ‘Oh, Columbus discovered America’ but when he got there, there were some fair-skinned people with long hair smoking peace pipes. So what does that tell you? Columbus didn’t discover America,” said O’Neal.
On another podcast last year Boston Celtics point-guard Kyrie Irving also said that he believes the Earth is flat.
“This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat. 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,” Irving said.
This certainly calls to mind the United Negro College Fund’s slogan: “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Shaquille O’Neal left LSU after two years and probably never took a science or history class. Kyrie Irving skipped his last three years at Duke University to turn pro, so he missed out on almost his entire education.
While Curry did have longer college career than most NBA stars, he left after 3 years, finishing that degree could have really helped him understand history, science, and logic. Then again he makes almost $38 million a season playing a game in short-pants so he probably doesn’t care.
