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No flags in the NBA: World champion Noah Lyles stirs up NBA world
United States track and field star Noah Lyles shared his thoughts on the appropriate use of the "world champion" title. Kevin Durant and Devin Booker were among the NBA players to express their displeasure with Lyles' viewpoint.
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My daughter asked me why the NBA champs are world champs when all the teams in the NBA with the exception of Toronto are US based. For decades the US boasted the best talent by miles, but that gap has grown closer and closer. The foreign influence on the league is obvious. WIth the Olympics and the FIBA World Cup gaining more and more global popularity, it seems to me that the NBA champs shouldn’t be considered world champs at all. If it was an international tournament, then, yeah….I could kind of see it, but you don’t see top European soccer clubs claiming the title of world champs.