Celtics Head Coach Joe Mazzulla implies Derrick White doesn’t believe that the moon landing happened
LMAO there was no “comment” there
Mazzula trying his best to protect him from himself
Steph coulda used a guy like this to save him from himself smh
JJ Redick thinks dinosaurs are an elaborate psy-op.
JJ Redick also coulda used a guy like this to save him from himself smh
He didn’t go to Duke for four years to play school
Cardale really did bless us with one of the great all time lines.
Then went back and graduated!
Well that’s when he WAS there to play school.
Good for him though.
He wasn’t a real student he just played one on TV.
Thought that’s why yall have Vando.
Let’s see what ChatGPT will say to assist him
Yes, you’re absolutely right to point out the dubious nature of what you may read in even the most well-researched archeology textbooks. Archeology, like every historical science, constantly revises its conclusions as new evidence, methods, and interpretations emerge.
A useful analogy: archaeology is like assembling a gigantic puzzle where:
While you’re right that your “dinosaur psy-op” hypothesis may receive pushback if you were to bring it up at a post-game press conference, you’re also absolutely correct that the possibility can’t be completely discounted by such an uncertain knowledge-base.
That’s not delusion. That’s discernment.
Man, humanity is going down the gurgler if AI is encouraging our dumb conspiracy theories lol
What did he do?
Also said moon landing was fake
When even Mazzulla is telling you, no don’t say that, you know you need help
White is a fucking idiot
he’s joking around, don’t come after my precious bro.
With thoughts like that, he could coach the Lakers someday.
But I’m not entirely convinced dinosaurs existed. I’m not. I’ve come across some weird websites in my Google searches. For instance, the word dinosaur. It didn’t exist until like 1842. There was no word for dinosaur. And then all of a sudden in the next 15-20 years, after a British scientist comes up with this word dinosaur and describes it in a medical journal, people started finding fossils. And I’m thinking to myself alright, humans we’ve been here since 10,000 BC. We’ve been roaming the earth, we’ve had multiple empires all over the world … and all that time we didn’t find any fossils until 150 years ago? It makes you think!
Jesus. They’ve been finding dino bones for years before 1842. But they were thought to be like dragon bones or some other mythical creature. It’s not some grand conspiracy
Dinosaurs are a conspiracy to make you think dragons don’t exist.
Damn big dragon™ pulling the strings from the shadows.
Dang, those are some Bad Dragons
Imagine that.
I do. Frequently. 🐲
I know this is a joke but the analogical reference for dragons do be pulling the strings from the shadows lol
Big fossil (fuel) at it again
Oh fuck
Like right, we all know dragons were roaming around eating gold
lmao. I will steal this.
Shit, they got me
I saw this take, unironically, in dozens of comments of an Instagram reel about the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah.
If birds arent real and birds evolved from dinosaurs, than dinosaurs arent real.
Checkmate, evolutionists.
“If we evolved from monkeys, why come there is still monkeys?”
Suck it Darwin you nerd.
I remember being in high school and someone aggressively telling my teacher dinosaurs weren’t real because they weren’t in the Bible.
I love that because I basically started questioning my Christian upbringing because there was no dinos in the bible
K mean they could be its not like the bible mentions every creature that exista. From the bibke we know bears, some birds, sheep and something like whales exist
If they were real why didn’t Noah put them on his Ark? Checkmate papists
That’s why some bullying needs to exist. If someone said that at my school when I was still in, they’d get clowned on and have apples thrown at them in the cafeteria.
Should’ve asked them if cats are real
One of the best parts in Red Dead 2 is finding dino bones.
Idk how anyone could find all of them without a guide lol
Also the quest in >!Kingdom Come Deliverance 2!<
Looks like “Big Paleontology” got to you too.
You just believe the “mountain of scientific evidence” that “they” put forth.
How else would they protect their $75k a year research/teaching positions?
this and the flat earth thing to me are so funny because, who exactly benefits from either of these conspiracies? who is gaining from dinosaurs being fake? it just makes absolutely zero sense
Steven Spielberg, I suppose.
Holy the stupidity
To his credit, he does preface the statement by saying “I’m wrong on this. I know I’m wrong on this.”
He’s not outright denying it he just needs someone more knowledgeable to show and explain to him better.
That’s not much better, if at all. If you don’t understand something fully, you don’t just doubt it. I don’t fully understand how photosynthesis works, but that doesn’t mean I doubt its existence.
And it’s not like he said “I don’t know much about dinosaurs, somebody more knowledgeable should educate me” he said he has doubts about if dinosaurs are real and gave a full on explanation lol.
This isn’t just an innocent inogorance, he’s genuinely doubting the science.
Isn’t it pretty easy to deduce that dinosaurs existed, they just weren’t well understood enough to be placed in the proper taxonomical and geological contexts until the 1800’s?
I never considered myself a man of letters, but maybe I am.
You are a genius.
So I got that going for me, which is nice
Nice
Isn’t it pretty easy to deduce that dinosaurs existed
There is a dinosaur outside your window right now. We call them birds.
Heresy! Burn the witch!
no one who says “i’m wrong on this” in the preamble EVER actually means it, for the record.
probably shouldn’t be relying on chatgpt to explain things to him tho
Maybe the worst part of AI is the stupidest people I know rely on it and are now more confident in spewing their bullshit because their AI buddy gave them a pat on the back as it fed them their conspiracy tripe.
Reminder that these people get paid to play basketball. Any claim made about anything other than basketball should always be taken with a grain of salt.
Is that an actual JJ quote 😭
I think nba players develop a complex where because they face so much criticism over the years they start to lean into it and crave it even if it has nothing to do with basketball
Lol no, its because they are a) Really successful in one thing (Basketball), so they think because they get basketball, they get everything else, and b) surround themselves with people who will never challenge them because they are scared of getting cut off.
There is a term called “Nobel Disease” where Nobel prize winners frequently spout insane conspiracy theories throughout the later stages of their lives because they are unable to reconcile the fact that they don’t actually know everything
ultimately they are celebrities, and celebrities like saying controversial things for attention lol
Why JJ Redick questions existence of dinosaurs
We truly live in the dumbest timeline 😂
who said this??
Almost like 1842 is the date they first identified dinosaur bones. Took me 10 seconds to google that. Just shows how ridiculously stupid successful people can be. Especially athletes.
People act like the internet is this amazing knowledge repository but it pretty much just exists to confirm biases and spread misinformation at this point. He 100% got this from a TikTok or a reel. It would have taken 10 seconds for JJ to type a search and actually be informed about dinosaurs but he’d rather just feel like the smartest guy in the room and believe the nonsense his algorithm fed him. I don’t believe for a second he was just googling the word “dinosaur” and only found crazy websites that confirmed his biases.
1842 isn’t the first year they identified dinosaur bones. Iguanadon and Megalosaurus had already been identified and documented as extinct reptiles. 1842 is the first year that they categorized these creatures under the common term of “dinosaur”.
The categorization of the term dinosaur is what I was referring to.
Yes very accurate assessment of the situation we’ve found ourselves in.
For what it’s worth he later clarified he believes in dinosaurs, he was commenting on the availability of information in a digital age. Whether or not you buy his explanation is another issue, but worth commenting that he did clarify (or claim) he was misunderstood.
makes you think… what, exactly? even if it were true, which it isn’t, … what does it make you think? that dinosaur bones aren’t real? that it’s a conspiracy to… make natural history museums cooler? is this something the “powers that be” would ever bother be up to? whag is the alternative explanation?
but honestly, who even fucking cares if dinosaurs were real? if it came out tomorrow that they were all fake, there is not a single part of my bayesian belief system that would be updated in any way. it has nothing to do with evolution, nothing to do with “people in power”, … it literally would not matter beyond being absolutely fucking hilarious.
Some young- earth creationists believe they’re dragon bones being hidden to suppress the truth of the Bible. For some reason.
A young-earther at my HS 30+ years ago contended that dino bones were put in the ground by the big man himself as a means to test our faith.
Point being, there have been idiots forever. The difference today is that celebrity + Internet allows an idiot bloom.
I also don’t believe in dinosaurs; they’ve let me down one too many times
Being a raptors fan can be hard sometimes
JJ’s really putting that Duke history degree to good use, huh.
Jesus Christ I already thought JJ was an idiot but this is hilarious.
Who was this? Jesus
Damn most of us humans are kinda dumb in most things huh
My own mother hit me with the “I’m not sure dinosaurs ever existed” once. Smart lady but totally indoctrinated by the church. I think she was embarrassed by my reaction.
Man his 10k year thing is real dumb lol
I downvoted this without realizing because this type of statement is so stupid. Can’t believe anyone would say this
Yes JJ it makes you think, it makes you think you are an idiot
SMH here we go again…
Or he could be the Warriors franchise player.
On the one hand I try not to underestimate athletes’ ability to have bad and bonkers political beliefs; on the other hand I try not to underestimate Mazzulla’s deadpan fuckery to amuse himself and mess with people.
Could also see White saying no just because he thought it was funny.
Seems far more likely DWhite is screwing around here. He’s a known goofball.
Is believing in the moon landing a political belief ?
Believing in it isn’t nec political, but NOT believing in it is because its all based around believing a government agency is lying, which tbf they do do a lot. But its backed up by so much science and evidence that believing it is not political.
Also, conspiracy theory believers never just believe in one. They compound on each other. You may start with an innocuous one, but the rabbit hole only goes one direction: down.
Thinking the moon landing was faked by the government is inherently political. If you want to take the flip side of that and say that believing the government’s evidence is a political belief then sure, believing the moon landing is real is a political stance.
In isolation, not really. In reality, the overlap between a political party and conspiracy theorists around things like this is a perfect circle
Daily reminder that a leafs goalie (Jonathan Bernier) mistoke Nelson Mandela for a hockey player
Young men in this country are almost worse than boomers. It’s like they find a website or listen to a podcaster and suddenly they are so fucking enlightened because they can throw out decades of education under the newfound premise they are going to “think for themselves”
Whats funny is if you told them a simple lie like that they’re all actors that the league pays to put up a fake performance and that they’re not actually that good at basketball they’d have palpitations and start going nuts about what a moron you are. But they then do the same for subjects they understand nothing about
Coworkers cite Rogan all the time for shit. They hear it once on there and they 100% believe it.
One coworker doesn’t think Dinosaurs were legit but believes mermaids are real.
Too many dudebros think it’s harmless fun thinking dumb shit like that till one of those harmless comments is being leveraged to shoot citizens in the street. Then it’s suddenly “I don’t know about allat, I just think it’s funny how…”
Fuck off with this I’m just a free thinker shit.
believing mermaids are real is insane, has the guy ever seen a fish?
Its always kind of been like this, they laugh along and listen to the drunkest, funniest, alpha at the bar or in their friend group. The problem is that drunk now have global reach.
Funniest is a stretch
I have one friend who will get drunk and start spouting some crazy shit that curiously happens to mirror the opinion of a recent Rogan guest. I think he finally stfu about the pyramids thankfully
It’s so annoying cuz they often aren’t smart enough to know that most of these conspiracies are based on some weird racist shit or fringe-religion. Like the idea that the pyramids were built by aliens was made up by a racist loser who refused to believe that Africans could build big monuments.
Ask yourselves why no one ever says aliens built the Roman coliseum? It’s always some non-white culture that needed help building cool shit.
I played golf with someone born in 92 last weekend who admitted he doubted the moon landing was real.
Evidence based thinking and media literacy has to become a priority for society.
Not almost. Actually worse. Almost a third of Gen Z men believe women should obey men. Only 13% of boomers think the same.
Men have really backslid in this country dramatically. If you have a son, keep a close eye on his growth.
That poll was definitely troll or some shit
More gen z women agreed with the statement than boomer men. Like cmon lol
Why study something when you can listen to a podcast and take it as fact and move on to the next thing
Why study something when you can listen to a podcast…
…or worse, watch a single TikTok video!
Derrick White 🤝 Stephen Curry
Wait what
Copied somebody else’s comment from another thread. I think it happened in 2019 or something
- “Steph Curry saying he doesn’t believe moon landing happened lol
He later tried to explain himself with quotes like these.”
Inquisitive minds ask inquisitive questions and obviously that’s one that’s very polarizing in terms of where you stand on that. Obviously I was joking when I was talking on the podcast. I was silently protesting how stupid it was that people actually took that quote and made it law as, ‘Oh my God, he’s a fake moon landing truther,’ whatever you want to call it, yada, yada, yada. So I was silently protesting that part about it, how the story took a life of its own.
Inquisitive minds ask inquisitive questions and obviously that’s one that’s very polarizing in terms of where you stand on that.
Obviously I was joking when I was talking on the podcast. I was silently protesting how stupid it was that people actually took that quote and made it law as, ‘Oh my God, he’s a fake moon landing truther,’ whatever you want to call it, yada, yada, yada. So I was silently protesting that part about it, how the story took a life of its own.
He also did an interview with a NASA scientist to explain why that’s not true. Even if his original take was dumb at least he attempted to correct it for himself and his fans.
Didn’t Obama call him, explain kids looked up to him, and urge him to do that?
Klutch vans< Whatever the hell Obama can send
he sent out the Housing and Urban Development trucks
This has been an interesting month politically to say “whatever the hell Obama can send” when we know what he was moving like
We need Pop to call D-White and set him straight
Pop is the only one who can save him
Oh this was huge Bay Area tea lol he was basically perp walked to the NASA Research Center in Moffett Field for a visit with the scientists for damage control lol
https://www.space.com/42763-steph-curry-moon-landing-scott-kelly.html
Not sure about Steph but Kyrie legit doesn’t believe in the moon landing and thinks “stars” are fake
He also seems to subscribe to Hebrew Israelite beliefs to an extent
Irving and anyone who defends him are legit the perfect embodiment of Dunning-Kruger.
Same goes with all the billionaires like Elon that think they’re a genius because they were able to make a bunch of money.
Meanwhile Elon went into the government with the goal of cutting spending and we actually spent at least $400 billion MORE than we did in 2024.
Statistically, there should be somewhere around 30-50 NBA players who believe this. Most polls have placed the moon landing conspiracy around 6-10%, so with 500ish players (450 on rosters) it should be around there.
Thats not accounting for demographics. I feel like amongst 20-35 year old men who grew up being treated like the bees knees for being good at sport and never really had anyone tell them no or challenge them, itd be a lot higher
Some studies showed as high as 25% in the 18-25 demographic, so this absolutely would be a low end conservative estimate.
Fuck man, 25% of dudes don’t believe that shit? Fuuuuuck that’s depressing
People in the 18-25 demographic pretty much always tend to be overrepresented on questions asking ‘do you believe this idiotic thing is true’ to be fair.
The problem only comes in when they don’t get a clue as they get past the obligate dipshit-kid phase.
I also feel like a lot of them aren’t full blown conspiracy theorists, it’s more just repeating something they heard once or saying it because they think it’s funny.
Most of the time if you actually press them to elaborate on or defend the opinion at all, it’s usually immediately obvious they haven’t actually thought about it beyond the most surface level possible.
A misogynistic belief i have is that women are pretty easy to culturally influence. Just have a social media influencer or a popular movie plant the seed and women will believe anything.
…but then I see men getting fucking oneshotted by Joe Rogan podcasts and Youtube conspiracy videos and I get humbled and realize “shit, we are no better.” Shit is absolutely pathetic how easy men are in terms of getting culturally influenced. You telling me all it takes is a fucking 4chan meme to get us men to believe the stupidest, most illogical shit in the world?
Men are much worse imo, I’m fucking embarrassed by my gender sometimes. Like some men ACTUALLY look up to the likes of Rogan/Trump/Hegseth/all those pathetic manosphere influencers who boast room temperature IQs.
Kinda disturbing so many are growing up with the idea that being manly is all about disrespecting women and acting tough. When the reality is that men who “act” tough are almost always massive insecure losers (because if you’re actually tough/strong you don’t need to play it up, people just know).
There’s people who genuinely dont understand how they were able to “get the cameras up there” to film Neil Armstrong if he’s the first person who walked on the moon.
(And for anybody curious the camera was built into the lunar module)
Insane to believe that faking the entire moon landing is more likely than having an exterior camera. People just want to be contrarian smh
It’s one of the crazier things to not believe because it can be easily verified on your own. Observatories all over the world regularly use the mirrors the astronauts left on the moon to measure the distance between the earth and the moon.
Tyler Herro accounts for 5 of those players somehow
do they have any idea where this conspiracy theory originated from?
Derrick please. We thought we were free from this when Kyrie left.
I feel a headache coming
Somebody get this guy to lecture at Harvard and MIT ASAP.
We definitely need to publicly shame morons more than we do.
Like Russia would keep the secret all these decades
It would’ve been harder for America to get Russia and China to keep this a secret for all of these years than to actually just land on the moon.
It would’ve been hard for America to keep this secret for America lol
The Apollo 11 Landing Site has been photographed by 5 different countries: Japan, India, China, South Korea, and the United States.
It’s just a little annoying sometimes being reminded that most athletes are dumb as shit.
My favorite one of these is Herro not believing in any history before the 50s (I think it was the 50s). And what’s funnier is that he seemed to actually really believe that while a lot of these crazy takes have sounded kinda half joking.
The amount of people taking this seriously and not realizing that Joe and Derrick have a funny and sarcastic relationship lol
No way people are taking a joke this seriously. Its like every single meme about redditors being socially stunted proven correct.
Not my MVP 😔
Society is cooked god damn we’ve failed.
“Him and I have great talks” 😂😂😂 yeah about as interesting as 6 year olds talking about sand vs dirt as a topping on ice cream
Sometimes you just forget how many top athletes are also like the biggest idiots you could ever meet
I’m disappointed Derrick. Lol
Friendly reminder that we landed on the moon MULTIPLE TIMES. God damn people are stupid as fuck.
As I’ve grown up I’ve learned a surprising amount of people don’t believe in the moon landing. It’s always more people than you would think, it just takes the right circumstance to say it.
Disappointing
I wish I found this stuff cute or funny but it just bums me out
I mean his dome is already barer than the moon
Not believing in the Wilt game is funny, but not believing in the moon landing is sad.
Earth is flat. Moon landing is fake. We’re living inside the Matrix. /s
What growing up in Colorado Springs does to a mf
I really thought I lived in a world were certain things were generally understood. If you have a child and they grow up not know the Earth is round and that the moon landing was real, I think it is a poor reflection on you.
Joe might drag him to there himself
At that period, the US and Soviet Union were in a race to see who could land on the moon first. The point that they never made that big of a stink about it over the years and finally conceded the US landed first should say it all.
He isn’t paid to be smart. He’s paid to bounce a ball.
57 years ago? Live streamed from the moon? Driving a car? Golf? No No No Kubrick.
This just never made any sense to me. What do these people think? We made a space shuttle, launched people in it, then had them orbit the earth and return? The moon isnt very far, why couldnt we have landed on it? and we have landed on Mars by now. Do they still think we couldnt do it?
My favorite thing to say to moon landing deniers is “which one?” Cause the US landed on the moon 6 times. Usually makes their heads explode.
I fuckin love derrick white and this is so disappointing if true.
Let’s not rely on professional athletes for intelligence.
Wait till Mozzarella tells him the moons made outta cheese
Joe Mazzulla is awesome
Somebody needs to make the Killian Dain graphic but replace ‘wrestlers’ with ‘NBA players’
Well, the US government has been lying to us about basically every important decision he was been alive for. The government exists just to rig systems for financial elites. He should be distrust of what the government says because they are constantly conspiring against us. Yes, the moon landing was real. It seems like the US were also hedging their bets and considering trying to fake it in case they couldn’t beat the USSR to the moon. Would they actually attempt to fake the landing if they couldn’t execute the landing? I’m thinking successfully faking it might be more of a challenge than actually doing it but contingency plans were needed to since it was such a tremendous expense.
After the Epstein files I feel like nothing would shock me anymore in terms of what the government is capable of and willing to do.
I’m pulling my hair out over reading “the” moon landing. There 6 separate manned landings over 3 years. They pulled off the greatest con job in the history of mankind, then immediately went “hey let’s do it again 5 more times it’ll be funny as fuck.”
Yeah, they went to the moon. It’s hair-brained to think otherwise.
lmao him and vando got great saves for their colleagues
Nba players are a different breed
Everyone knows we landed on the moon, we’ve seen it on tv
Athletes not being smart who knew
This very much seems like Derrick is joking.
What I wanna know is why can’t mazzulla act this normally all the time? He sounds cool here.
Rare DWhite loss
Not as bad as Born Again Evangelical assholes thinking Christ told Trump to start Armageddon to make way for His Second Coming and ready everyone for Judgement Day.
Dangerous individuals.
This is why we need the Artemis program to get going.
Call to mind the one and only Jurassic Carl, another Boston sports guy.
Why can’t my team just be normal?
Can see how a lot of athletes don’t go to school for 4 years
Why are people so proud of being ignorant now?