Kyrie Irving no longer holds the weirdest scientific theory in the NBA. That honor now belongs to Cavaliers guard Jordan Clarkson, who says he thinks dinosaurs were on Earth for a bizarre purpose.
On the "Road Trippin'" podcast with Channing Frye and Richard Jefferson, Clarkson espoused a theory about dinosaurs that hasn't previously been introduced into the public sphere –– probably because it's really dumb.
"I don't believe in dinosaurs either," Clarkson said. "Well, actually I do. I believe that, OK, this is going to get a little bit crazy. I'm gonna take y'all a little left on this. 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 was they pets."
When pressed about how large these people were, Clarkson said they were probably three times bigger than dinosaurs. That's pretty big, considering the average T-Rex was 18-feet tall.
While Irving's "Earth is flat" theory has been debunked for centuries, at least he's not the first person to ever believe it. Sentient humans have shared his same thought process, even if the majority of them lived centuries ago.
Fittingly, Irving is the reason Clarkson plays for the Cavaliers –– in a roundabout way. Cleveland dealt Irving for Isaiah Thomas last August, and then traded Thomas to the Lakers for Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. at the deadline in February.
