In sport but also outside it, the United States is renowned – and that is an understatement – for its self-centeredness, which has the gift of annoying the athlete Noah Lyles… yet himself an American.
Triple gold medalist at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, the sprinter has thus taken a dislike to the NBA, which has a habit of considering its champions as world champions, when it is only a trophy of a national league.
” What bothers me the most is watching the Finals and seeing [que les champions NBA] have ‘world champion’ written on their head. But ‘world champion’ of what? The United States ? “, mocks the king of the world sprint. ” Don’t get me wrong, I love the United States sometimes, but that’s not the world as a whole. We [les Championnats du monde, ndlr] are the world, here there is almost every country, which fights, gives its all, raises its flag. There are no flags in the NBA. »
” It’s like the Champions League in football. »
Words that immediately did not fail to make basketball players react on social networks. Of Kevin Durant (” someone help this brother “) has Bam Adebayo (” lol, is someone going to tell him? “)Passing by Damian Lillard (” What is this mess “), De’Aaron Fox (” why does he care so much? “), Tyler Herro (” it’s the best league in the world, that’s why its champions are the world champions “), Udonis Haslem (” I’m a big fan, but let’s stop this bullshit “) Or Juan Toscano Anderson (” last time i looked the nba was the best league in the world “)they are several to have already expressed their disagreement with Noah Lyles.
No doubt that Charles Barkley will also line up in their camp, he who recently qualified of ” third World countries France and Germany, when discussing the benefits of a possible world gold medal for the popularity of basketball in these regions of the globe.
But others, like Boris Diawwent in the direction of the American sprinter: ” I understand why he says that. Personally, when I became NBA champion, I called myself NBA champion and not world champion, because it is not a world championship. […] I think it’s like the Champions League in football. I don’t believe there is a better team than the Champions League winner, but they are not called world champions. »
We imagine that all these beautiful people will have the opportunity to discuss it again in a year, during the Paris Olympics where the United States will try to remain the best nation in world sport.
