Out goes one conspiracy theorist at the Cleveland Cavaliers’ point guard position, in comes another. All things considered, Kyrie Irving’s flat Earth conspiracy seems pretty tame in comparison to Jordan Clarkson’s galaxy-brain belief of the role of dinosaurs in the prehistoric age.
Appearing on the Road Trippin’ podcast hosted by Cavs’ sideline reporter Allie Clifton, Clarkson unleashed this take:
“I don’t believe in dinosaurs either. Well, no, actually I do. Okay, this is going to get a little bit crazy, I’m gonna take y’all a little left on this. So y’all know how we got dogs and stuff, right? So, I think there was bigger people on the world before us, and like, the dinosaurs were their pets... You look at a dinosaur, [the people] have got to be three times bigger than them.”
This deserves to be reported on in greater depth. A Tyrannosaurus rex could be anywhere between 15 to 20 feet tall, so is Clarkson positing that 60-foot humans used to walk the earth? And that somehow, over the millennia, we evolved from those actual titans? There is so much more to know here. What sequence of events does it take for this thought to ever pop into somebody's mind?
We'll see how much traction the dinosaurs-as-dogs trutherism will get. Conspiracy theories have spread like wildfire in the NBA -- Philadelphia 76ers guard J.J. Redick's take on dinosaurs is much more restrained than Clarkson's, but he did share a belief that dinosaurs never existed on an episode of his own podcast.
If you can set aside an interest in factual accuracy, it's all in good humour... right?
h/t Road Trippin'
