He plays a virtually unrecognizable senior citizen who used to be a street basketball legend. Irving is about to have a very different skill tested for a mass audience: He is the star of the coming feature film and branding vehicle, “Uncle Drew,” based on a series of viral commercials that Pepsi developed in 2012 and that Mr. He can handle the ball, but can he act? Mr.
His ability to creatively dribble the basketball is so singular that The Boston Globe found last year that video game makers had trouble duplicating it. On this, there is very little debate - and certainly not from me, a lifelong Celtics fan. "But I was playing," O'Neal told AP earlier this year.Kyrie Irving, the point guard for the Boston Celtics, is a dazzling basketball player, one of the best in the world. O'Neal once echoed Irving's stance, that the Earth is flat. Other NBA superstars, including Irving's "Uncle Drew" movie co-star Shaquille O'Neal, entered the flat-Earth fray in recent months. And I was definitely at that time a big conspiracy theorist. At the time, I just didn't realize the effect. Like, no I'm actually a smart-ass individual. That's for intimate conversations because perception, how you're received, it just changes. And even if you believe in that, don't come out and say that stuff. "At the time, I was innocent in it, but you realize the effect of the power of voice.
"You click a YouTube link and it's like how deep does the rabbit hole go? You start telling all your friends, 'Did you see that? Watch this video.' Everybody's been there, like, 'Yo, what's going on with our world?' He said Monday he'd like to have the matter put to rest, and noted that this escapade was a good lesson of how words that come from influential people can have enormous power.Ĭ quotes Irving as saying, "At the time, I was huge into conspiracies. I'm not against anyone that thinks it's flat. "I'm not against anyone that thinks the Earth is round. "I do research on both sides," Irving said at the time.
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