Noah Lyles on NBA: World champions of what? USA? It is not the world, we are the world

Here we have every country here fighting, the athletes carry the flags of every country to show who they represent. There are no flags in the NBA

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Noah Lyles celebrates one of three golds in Budapest, Photo: Reuters
Noah Lyles celebrates one of three golds in Budapest, Photo: Reuters
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The fastest man on the planet, the world champion in 100 and 200 meters and in the 4x100 relay, the man who marked the recently concluded World Championships in Athletics...

Noah Lyles is one of the most beautiful stories of the championship in Budapest, and during the press conference after one of the competitions in the capital of Hungary, he also touched on the NBA league.

It is known that in the strongest basketball league on the planet, the best team is called the world champion, and this bothered the American sprinter very much.

"What hurts me the most is when I watch the NBA finals and it says 'world champions'. World champions of what? The United States of America," Lyles asked.

He continued in a similar vein…

"Don't get me wrong. I love the USA, sometimes, but it's not the world. We are the world. We have every country here fighting, the athletes wear the flags of every country to show who they represent. There are no flags in the NBA," Lyles said. .

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