We Don't Have To Pretend To Care About What Noah Lyles Thinks About Anything

Noah Lyles is a 26-year American sprinter who just won his third straight 200-meter title at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest over the weekend. That’s very good for him but I already don’t care. He didn’t break any records. He didn’t get caught doing steroids. The man ran fast and got a trophy. Sick.

But everyone and their mothers are chiming in to debate Lyles on what he said in his post-race press conference.

“I love the U.S… but that ain’t the world!” ❌

Noah Lyles throws shade at the NBA’s ‘world champions’ 🏀👀 pic.twitter.com/BRCJagckcK

— Eurosport (@eurosport) August 27, 2023

“I have to watch the NBA Finals and they have world champion on their heads. World champion of what? The United States? Don’t get me wrong. I love the U.S. at times. But that ain’t the world. … We are the world. We have almost every country out here fighting and thriving and putting on a flag to show that they are represented. There ain’t no flags in the NBA.”

This is the type of comment you make when you spend all of your life training to be the best sprinter in the world and you’ve never taken the time to think about the world around you. It sounded almost as if it was the first time he had ever considered the idea of ‘world champions’ and was giving his real train of thought.

I really wish he made fun of the World Series or the Super Bowl because no one would’ve responded and it wouldn’t have become the most unimportant debate topic in the history of history.

But Lyles chose the NBA—a league where 90% of the players live online constantly refreshing their Twitter and Instagram feeds like the rest of us.

Here are some of the lame ass dorky responses by NBA players:

So every player lined up to give their little comments.

“Somebody help this brother” -Kevin Durant

*face palm emoji* -Devin Booker

“Lol somebody going to tell him??” -Bam Adebayo

“Why bro care so much?” -DeAaron Fox

“The fuck?” -Damian Lillard

WHO CARESSSSSS.

I don’t watch First Take or Skip Bayless’s show but I imagine this will be a topic all week as these sports shows have no real content until the NFL season starts.

I have heard the NBA champions calling themselves the world champions for almost two decades now and I probably questioned it once when I was like, 8 years old and then never thought of it again but there are so many more interesting and important things happening on this planet but I’m glad that for 48 hours, every athlete who cut class their whole life got to have the most meaningless debate of all time.

But most importantly, I’m glad Noah Lyles said this so Evan Fournier could add his own 2 cents.

“If you participate in the World Cup or even the Olympics and you win, you have the right to call yourself world champions. The way I look at is NBA champions… It’s just a title.”

Evan Fournier on Noah Lyles’ recent comments

(via ESPN)pic.twitter.com/SEkRi7UEvu

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) August 29, 2023