The National Basketball Association’s players argue that they are competing in the world’s best league.
American Noah Lyles won the 100m and 200m titles and helped the US 4x100m relay team capture gold at the World Athletics Championships.
But Lyles said he is offended when US sports league champions like those in the NBA declare themselves “world champions” after capturing a crown without facing global rivals. NBA players would argue that they compete in the world’s best league and deserve the label of global best. “Don’t get me wrong,” Lyles said. “I love the US – at times – but that ain’t the world. We are the world. We have almost every country out here fighting, thriving, putting on their flag to show that they are represented.”The “world” champion is decided by national teams at the Basketball World Cup, now being contested in Asia with a US squad of NBA players competing for the crown.
“To Noah Lyles, Jesus Christ. Like, I get what he was saying but I don’t get what he was saying. You know what I’m saying?” Tiafoe said. “What he said made sense but what he said also did not make sense.”
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