ANALYSIS/OPINION
On the growing list of reasons for professional sports franchises not to employ athletes, I present to you a new one, courtesy of Kyrie Irving.
Do you really want your team to employ someone stupid enough to believe the Earth is flat?
AUDIO: Redskins kick returner Mike Nelms with Thom Loverro
Irving, as has been widely reported, wants out of Cleveland. He got a look at the glory that NBA Most Valuable Player Russell Westbrook enjoyed in Oklahoma City and James Harden in Houston — cities that I presume are in view on Irving’s flat Earth — and decided that was a better world than playing second fiddle to LeBron James, even on championship teams.