The name of Noah Lyles isn’t leaving the headlines. However, not all of those headlines are written in his praise. In fact, many of those headlines are about enraged players who didn’t like the sprinter’s comments about the NBA.

Noah Lyles has created a huge polarized rift between fans and divided the internet with his ‘fake world champs’ remark. While the golden three-peater is receiving flak from everywhere, two US athletes have stood up in his support. 

Track and field athletes spring up to support Noah Lyles

Noah Lyles recently conquered all there was to conquer at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest. He made history with his great golden endeavors. Lyles joined the ranks of Usain Bolt, Allyson Felix, and Maurice Greene by winning three gold medals at the WAC. The grand victory warranted a grand celebration. While Noah Lyles already shows behavior that says he’s above all, this time he had good reasons for it. However, the celebrations took an unexpected turn when he himself became a party pooper. He raised questions about the validity of the “world champion” title conferred upon NBA players. Lyles said that NBA stars don’t represent any country and definitely don’t represent the world. These remarks instantly caught fire and polarized the internet. The world watched as Lyles got ganged up on by NBA giants who expressed both displeasure and anger toward him.

Amid all the backlash, two of Lyles’ track and field brothers came to his rescue and evened things out. American sprinter Fred Kerley and hurdler Rai Benjamin joined voices with Noah Lyles and conformed with his opinion. Kerley and Benjamin are also accomplished athletes who compete at the global stage along with Lyles. Kerley uploaded a tweet and emphasized that the NBA is a national league by simply typing, “National basketball association.” 

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Rai Benjamin on the other hand laughed at the way NBA players got triggered and hyped Noah Lyles for it. He tweeted, “NBA triggered dawg.” These posts attracted several other tweets from fans in the comments who supported Noah Lyles. While these posts gave some much-needed breathing room to Lyles, it also made the matter bigger. In fact, hitmaker hip-hop star Drake has also jumped in the fire now.

Drake opens fire against Lyles

The video interview of Noah Lyles is raking in millions of views. In fact, it has clearly become one of the most talked about things on the internet right now. Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard, Draymond Green, and many more NBA stars have already responded to Lyles’ uninvited remarks. However, the entry of Drake has stirred things up even more. The rapper commented on the video interview of Lyles where he trashed the claim of world champions by NBA stars.

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Drake said that Lyles must have thought hard about the winning speech the night before and it must’ve sounded good. However, he has now turned all of the NBA against him by meddling with the wrong crowd. The beef picked up by Noah Lyles is getting bigger and bigger. While the world championships are now over, the end of this salty matter isn’t going to be visible anytime soon.

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