And now for something completely foreseeable.
The Warriors’ Stephen Curry on Wednesday delivered the inevitable rim shot to the whole fake-moon-landing kerfuffle, telling ESPN, “Obviously I was joking when I was talking on the podcast. (Then) 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.”
Because it sucks to be late to the party, here is what he said on the infamous podcast:
“We took someone to the moon? I don’t think so.”
I mean, how much more proof do you need?
“(While) I was silently protesting,” Curry said, “the story took a life of its own.”
To say the least. Curry’s words circled the globe in less time than it took the InSight Mars lander to send earthbound scientists a message saying, “Wish you were here.”
Hearing Curry’s comments, leprechauns rioted in Belfast. Unicorns stampeded across the Serengeti Desert. Paul McCartney rose from the dead. Amelia Earhart paid a visit to the eternal flame at JFK’s grave. Darth Vader announced he wasn’t Luke Skywalker’s father after all.
NASA checked in — for real — inviting Curry to tour the Johnson Space Center the next time the Warriors are in Houston.
“I am definitely going to take them up on their offer,” Curry said. “I am going to educate myself firsthand on everything that NASA has done and shine a light on their tremendous work over the years. And hopefully people understand that education is power, informing yourself is power.”
He might want to educate the Daily Mail, which, in its coverage of Curry’s folly, reported that “in 1967, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to land on the moon.”
Fact check: It was 1969. But wait, weren’t the ’60s just a mirage?
“For kids out there that hang on every word that we say,” Curry said, “understand that you should not believe something just because somebody says it. You should do your homework and understand what you actually believe.”
Typical Steph Curry, one step ahead of the rest of us.
With the possible exception of the Toronto Raptors.