'World Champion of what?' Reacting to U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles' NBA shade | First Take YT Exclusive

Good morning, welcome to First Take on YouTube. We've got Dan Arlovsky and Stephen A, guys, let's dive in, so over the weekend, American

sprinter

Noah Lyles completed the 100 meter and 200 meter sweep winning gold medals at the World Championships. However, Lyles faced some controversy following the comments. He did it after his wins when he threw some

shade

towards the NBA here for you, you know,

what

hurts me the most is that I have to watch the NBA Finals and they have the

world

champion

in Nate,

world

champion

of

what

they do the United States. Don't get me wrong, sometimes I love America, but that's not the world, that's not the world, we are the world where we have almost every country here struggling prosperous putting up their flag to show that they are represented.

Overseas NBA flags are not happy with Lyles here

reacting

on IG run by Kevin Durant saying quote that someone helped this brother Stephen A. Any problem with Lyle's comments, well the only problem I had was lies from Noah. First of all, congratulations to your greatness. to represent this country the way they gave you big props, I'm sure he's a good brother and part of it just seemed blatantly ignorant and that has to be said, the NBA has established itself as a global iconic brand, possibly. The best player in the game today in many people's eyes is Nicola Jokic.

Okay, you have guys from Serbia, so Slovenia. You know, the list goes on. Luka Doncic, where is he from? Well, Jana sent it to Kumpo. Where it is? Greece. I'm looking at a number right here, according to a press release poster from last October. The NBA currently has 120 players from 40 countries on six continents on its roster for last season and it's up now, so how is that not global? who is not the world champion, the best players from around the world descend on the United States to join the National Basketball Association of more than 450 players, almost a third of them are international players and the International Players instead stay there or choose to stay in your country. respective countries or in Europe, China or wherever the case may be, to play basketball they want to come to the NBA league because it is the best basketball league on the planet so it is not allowed, he said a very very very ignorant comment because a third and almost a third of the players are from all over the world again 40 countries six continents one could easily argue that NBA players compete more against international competition than he does.

I'm just saying that the last two MBA MVPs are Joelle Embiid and Nicola Jokic, so both of those are from outside the United States, plus the number one pick in the NBA draft was Victor wo Manana, from France, so I'm agree with Stephen Knight that they are the best, maybe not the best, but the most skilled players are probably European or right now. They are non-American, especially the young ones, so there is a lot of global growth in the NBA. No, the NBA has done an incredible job, obviously, internationally. Incredibly, we know that the NFL is trying to catch up, but I will say if they just beat around the bush to their point of technically, even though the countries are from different countries, it's not really a world championship, when we talk about the NBA, still so if we were to call it correctly, it would be the US Championships, actually what he is. saying but I don't agree I know exactly what he was saying and I hear where you are coming from.

I just don't agree with them because he's going to represent the United States of America and he's competing against some people from his own country, obviously he's competing against people. from other countries, guess what the NBA players are now, the NFL is different, the NFL could

take

the NFL product and they could go, you know, and play in London or play in Germany, they're doing more things like that and you get all that. and they are trying to do more to expand their brand and go more global, we understand that the talent is also very different in that sport exactly, so you have to look at it from that perspective, but in the sport of basketball, literally, there is basketball. leagues from all over the world, but they come to the NBA because the NBA is the best and you have players from other countries, elite players, Joel and B.

Jana jokingly told Cooper, it's Luka Doncic. Others, you know Tony Tony Parker, from friends who just joined. in the Basketball Hall of Fame you are seeing people, I mean obviously Manu Ginobili and others, you are seeing international competition just because you play in the league that is American, the diversity of talent comes from where the talent comes from, the problem is not could be. He escaped from the NBA being called world basketball champion because the NBA is appropriate because the competition they compete against each other is global. There is a difference between world champion and Olympic champion.

I feel like he might have been trying to reference the Olympics and less. and it kind of misses the point that the NBA draws from the entire world and that's why it's called a world champion, it's not an Olympic champion because you weren't on that stage and the NBA didn't do it or Team USA didn't beat someone and Supported today, he is still a world champion and the NBA people are still competing against the best in the world, so technically I agree with stevia, they are the definition of world champion, they are not Olympic champions, yes, and I'm going to assume which one we should be.

Never do in life that maybe he is not aware of the fact that he is international, actually the NBA is sure, well they are not okay, how about not, how about you don't enjoy your moment instead of try to throw

shade

on the league and what they do? they're doing, they certainly didn't do it to him, yeah, the NBA players congratulate them, they were a little nasty for coming, no, I mean you still saw what Kevin Durant said, someone helped us, bro, because I mean, she explained it to him, that's what we just did in this YouTube segment, we're here to help, real quick before we get out of here.

Would you rather have an Olympic gold medal and be on that international stage or am I going to go with your basketball sport and NBA title? It's a good question, it's a great question if I'm just thinking about the individual accolades, obviously, the Olympic stage, but, um, the NBA Championship that comes with international recognition and a lot of money. I would proudly choose the ladder. What about you, Dan, obviously? your sport wins a Super Bowl, well, you can't, we can't really do that for you. I would love to be in the Olympics, that's what I mean, yeah, yeah, it had to be super cool and have metal dropped around your neck 100, really, yeah.

You would go to the Olympic gold medal 100 interesting, okay, yeah, what about you? Yes, I would like you both Thanks for watching, be sure to watch the

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