Stephen Curry, Like Your Conspiracy Theorist Uncle, Thinks the Moon Landing Wasn't Real

Stephen Curry just admitted he's not convinced the U.S. ever landed on the moon.

Basketball's golden boy, Stephen Curry, has raised eyebrows after the consistently uncontroversial player made some pretty off-brand comments.

During his time on The Ringer's Winging It, a podcast that's supposed to get into the minds of basketball players when they're not playing, he admitted he didn't believe that the United States landed on the moon.

"We ever been to the moon," Curry asked the podcast's presenters. They all answered with 'no'.

"They're going to come get us," Curry continued. "Sorry, I don't want to start conspiracies."

And with that, a whole new generation was introduced to one of the classic conspiracy theories.

Look, it's definitely in the "not super outlandish" bag as far as conspiracy theories go. He could've instead tried to convince us that alien lizards dressed in human suits actually run the world.

NASA spokesperson Allard Beutel has since responded to Curry's comments by extending an invitation to him to tour a NASA facility in Texas.

"We'd love for Mr. Curry to tour the lunar lab at our Johnson Space Center in Houston, perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets," Beutel said.

"We have hundreds of pounds of moon rocks stored there, and the Apollo mission control.

"During his visit, he can see firsthand what we did 50 years ago, as well as what we're doing now to go back to the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay."

Now that's a salty response. 

He's certainly not the first NBA player to take a strange stance on things. Back in 2016, Boston Celtics' Kyrie Irving declared that the earth is flat, though he later said he was joking.

NBA legend, Shaquille O'Neal, chimed in to support Irving arguing that he doesn't understand believe in gravity or that the Earth is a sphere.

"I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it's flat to me," O'Neal said in The Big Podcast.

"You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It's not. The world is flat."

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