NEW ORLEANS — If only we all had friends like LeBron James. My mom likes me. My brother likes me. My wife tolerates me. None of them are going to publicly denounce the very bedrocks of how the universe functions on my behalf. If I helped LeBron James bring an NBA championship to Cleveland, he would. That’s real love.
After an internet firestorm erupted over Kyrie Irving’s comments on Channing Frye and Richard Jefferson’s podcast that the Earth is flat (and that the whole idea of planets orbiting the sun is suspect, at best), the assembled media masses in New Orleans for the All-Star Game descended on each morsel of availability Irving offered to quiz him on basic astronomy.