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Former NBA star makes stance clear on 'world champions' argument: 'We'll bust that a--'

13.02.2024 - 23:27 foxnews.com

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Over the summer, track star Noah Lyles ruffled some feathers when he said NBA players did not have the right to call themselves "world champions" after winning the NBA Finals. "I have to watch the NBA Finals, and they have world champion on their head.

World champion of what?" Lyles said in August shortly after he won three gold medals at the world championships. "The United States?

Don’t get me wrong. I love the U.S. at times, but that ain’t the world. That is not the world." He continued: "We are the world.

We have almost every country out here fighting, thriving, putting on their flag to show they are represented. There ain’t no flags in the NBA.

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