With Workforce USA males’s basketball seeking to show some extent on the 2024 Paris Olympics, wanting to point out that the remainder of the world hasn’t caught as much as them on the court docket, many tuned in to see if LeBron James and the star-studded squad may come out on high and convey a gold medal again to the USA.
Happily, Steve Kerr’s squad achieved its mission, holding off Serbia and France and avoiding some shut calls to return house victorious.
Nonetheless, one Olympic athlete for the USA, sprinter Noah Lyles, didn’t come with out a honest quantity of controversy as he doesn’t like that champions within the NBA and NFL name themselves world champions after they aren’t competing on worldwide levels.
Clearly, this didn’t sit effectively with American skilled athletes, and Lyles obtained numerous backlash from them consequently.
New York Knicks star Josh Hart went so far as to say he was rooting towards the monitor and area star within the Olympics due to what he mentioned.
“I really wanted him to lose,” Hart mentioned to Knicks teammate Jalen Brunson, by way of the “Roommates Show.” “… I think this was the first time all of the NBA Twitter like banded together and was just hatin’.”
Josh on Noah Lyles:
“I really wanted him to lose… you know what, respect. I can’t even hate no more.”
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— Roommates Present (@Roommates__Show) August 15, 2024
Hart seemingly wasn’t alone rooting towards Lyles, as it’s extremely seemingly that many gamers within the NBA and NFL have been probably doing the identical factor, regardless that it might come off as not being patriotic.
Ultimately, it looks as if all is effectively, with Lyles not getting as a lot warmth as he did earlier than the Olympics, contemplating he got here away with a gold medal within the 100-meter sprint earlier than falling to a bronze medal within the 200-meter sprint after reportedly testing optimistic for COVID.
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