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Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving won't back down on his belief the Earth is flat

NEW ORLEANS: For the record, Fox Sports Ohio's Allie Clifton sounded as incredulous as the rest of us when Kyrie Irving repeatedly insisted the Earth is flat.

That's the belief the 24-year-old Cavaliers guard stated during a Feb. 17 "Road Trippin' with RJ and Channing" podcast posted on cavs.com that sent the Twitter world into a frenzy Friday.

The conversation also touched on conspiracy theories, the existence of aliens, John F. Kennedy's assassination, Bob Marley and bad hamburgers.

"The earth is flat," Irving said during the podcast. "All these things that particular groups, I won't even pinpoint one group, that they almost offer up as education.