Kyrie Irving may not believe the Earth is spherical, but his talking points on the subject certainly are.

Yes, we’re back on this topic, because Irving told Geno Auriemma on the “Holding Court” podcast that he’s discovered “that there is no real picture of Earth.” I know, I know, but first — some background.

By now, you’re surely aware the four-time NBA All-Star once said on the now (sadly) defunct “Road Trippin’” podcast, “The Earth is flat,” and then repeated it several times while espousing conspiracy theories about the CIA assassinating Bob Marley and aliens in movies being based on actual aliens.

While many people, including NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, were convinced Kyrie was making “a larger comment on the so-called ‘fake news’ debate,” Irving doubled down on “Road Trippin'” several weeks later during a conversation in which he said an ex-teammate came to him in his sleep. I know it sounds like I’m making all this up, but I assure you these are actual conversations that happened.

The topic circled back in September, when Irving first arrived at Boston Celtics training camp and was asked on 98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Toucher and Rich” morning show, “Is the Earth flat?” Kyrie’s response: “All I want to be able to do is have that open conversation, and when I say open, I mean open.”

Somehow that turned into a series of headlines across the internet along the lines of “Kyrie Irving claims he was just trolling with all that flat-Earth nonsense,” which was as distorted as the flat-Earth theory itself, but whatever. Me? I still can’t get over the idea of this otherworldly talent who made one of the most clutch shots in NBA history telling us repeatedly that the Earth is flat. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around it for the past nine months, and this was the best I could do in September:

So, here’s my latest theory on Irving’s flat-Earth theory: He’s into the idea of a transcendent mind or a consciousness that lives outside of the brain. In his eyes, we are not of this world. Maybe we’re all in the Matrix. Maybe this is all a dream from which we’ll wake up someday. That would explain a lot about the current state of the world, actually. Whatever the case, our individual world is what we make of it, and that transcends science and everything we’ve learned about planets orbiting space.

Now? Now I have to scrap that theory in favor of a new one, which is really the original one: Kyrie Irving believes the Earth is flat, because he got into that sweet conspiracy theory stuff on the internet. It was right in front of our faces when he told us this the first time around, and it’s pretty tough to rule it out now that he just expounded upon it with the UConn women’s basketball coach, as one does.

I mean, I tend to take people at their word when they tell me over and over they believe something.

Auriemma turned his recent discussion from one on basketball to the shape of the Earth, pointing to his emigration by boat from Italy and Irving’s travels from Australia to the United States, before asking this: “You mean to tell me if we had kept sailing, we would have fallen off the edge of the Earth?”

“The whole intent behind it wasn’t to bypass science,” answered Irving. “It wasn’t to have the ultimate intent of starting a rage and to be seen as this insane individual. When I started seeing comments and things about universal truths that I had known, I had questions. I had questions, but I don’t necessarily know. I won’t necessarily sit here and say that I know, but when I started actually doing research on my own and figuring out that there is no real picture of Earth — like, there’s not one real picture of Earth — and we haven’t been back to the moon since 1961 or 1969, it becomes like conspiracy, too, where you say, ‘OK, let me question this.’

“And the separation that I can’t stand is that because I think one particular way — I’m not saying it applies to me and you, because you understand I’m a sane human being — but the way it was kind of divided, in terms of the separation, like, let’s completely throw away an idea that maybe we don’t know whether it’s true or not, but because he thinks different and he may think that the world is flat, then there’s a tirade of comments of who I am character-wise.