Paul George has always been infatuated by what’s above the clouds. His hometown, Palmdale, California, is the location of Air Force Plant 42, which has assembled every NASA space shuttle orbiter fleet, and, since 2007, NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Building 703, which specializes in science platform aircraft. He is certain there’s life outside Earth, too, though he won’t defend Kyrie Irving’s claim (that he later apologized for) that the Earth is flat or Lonnie Walker IV’s belief that this planet is an illusion.
When asked why NBA players are obsessed with conspiracy theories during a Nike shoot at the Kennedy Space Center in August, George responded: “Because we’re not dumb.