It’s been a good long time since we had some NBA science, but Jordan Clarkson’ concept of evolution makes Kyrie Irving’s flat-Earth look like it was written by Albert Einstein. Clarkson was a guest on the Road Trippin’ podcast with Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye, and Allie Clifton when he unleashed his personal belief of dinosaurs and humans on the world.
Jordan Clarkson thinks people used to be giants who owned dinosaurs as pets
Well ... OK then.
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
I promise you’re not ready for this.
CLARKSON: I don’t believe in dinosaurs either. Well, actually I do. I believe that, OK this is going to get a little bit crazy. I’m gonna take y’all a little left on this. Y’all know how we got dogs and stuff, right? So I think there was bigger people on the world before us, and like the dinosaurs was they pets.
FRYE: So how big were these people?
CLARKSON: Well, you look at a dinosaur — they might be three times bigger than them.
Frye pressed Clarkson and asked why we don’t have the bones of these giant humans, but couldn’t get a solid response. The podcast went off the rails a little bit. At one point the idea that Elvis wasn’t real came up. Apparently he was just a character played by people. But in any event, it’s this scientific theory of giant humans with dinosaurs on leashes that I’d like to explore.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex was 17-feet tall on average, and weighed roughly 16,000 pounds. This means that Clarkson’s human would need to be 50-feet tall and weigh 48,000 pounds. Approximately the size of a humpback whale. Humpback whales eat 5,000 pounds of food a day. So this theory would have to assume humans were hunting and eating dinosaurs (which have been established to be their pets) to get enough nutrients to survive.
Furthermore, not only is there no fossil evidence — but there’s no evidence of giant human tools to accommodate their size, signs of dwellings that would hold people this big, or any sign at all that they existed.
Clarkson also believes there are aliens, but they’re just “people looking for shit.”
Meanwhile his Lakers’ teammate Larry Nance Jr. thinks to moon landing was faked — but DOES believe in mermaids.
Never stop being weird and wonderful, NBA.
