US sprinter and 100m race world champion Noah Lyles after winning the gold medal in Budapest World athletics championship said in an interview that ‘NBA players label themselves as world champions after winning the NBA title’. Watch the media presentation.
In a question asked by the sports journalist Noah Lyles responded
You know what hurts me the most is that I have to watch the NBA Finals, and they have ‘world champion’ on their head. World champion of what? The United States? Don’t get me wrong. I love the US at times. But that ain’t the world.
-Noah Lyles
Following Noah Lyles’s remarks, many NBA superstars reacted on X formerly known as Twitter and Instagram against the Lyles, echoing that the NBA is the best basketball league in the world.
With that said, social media and the NBA sparked a divided debate regarding world champions.
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