dontreadthis
philly.
y'all are presenting stuff Noah Lyles isn't even arguing. National league>World Champs. literally no one is doubting that the league has the best talent and best team in the world at any given time.
Whole NBA on Noah Lyles head rn
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IsThatBrothaMouzone?
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Yup.
Also remember that NBA players nowadays are more sensitive to outside noise (Durant, LeBron, Draymond etc). They don't get coached hard. Mediocre players can get 9-figure contracts and they respond to haters on social media.
Noah was trolling them and it worked. Dude has to be the best in his sport to get real money and shine while an NBA dude can be average as fukk and get setup for generational wealth off a couple of contracts.
NFL/MLB aren't in the Olympics and NHL is Winter Olympics. Brehs like Lyles are good but most Olympic athletes are poor..especially in the U.S. For every Simone, Ledecky or Lyles, you got some random cyclist or pole vaulter that can barely make ends-meet because they gotta train non-stop but gotta work a flexible job just to support themselves.
While he was being a troll....7'0" nikkas worth hundreds of millions shouldn't be getting in their feelings over some innocuous comments by Lyles. Black folks might call him out, but lots of folks think NBA nikkas got life on easy mode just for being tall with a nice jumpshot. Embiid in particular needs to keep his mouth shut. He was ready to clown and then ducked out ASAP when Noah won. For all his shyt talk, he seems like a breh that would admit defeat like he did in the semis.
The more they get in their feelings, the more people are gonna side with Lyles. Better win that gold medal or the media is gonna clown them something serious. Noah also knows that when the Olympics are done, he's gonna be doing the Diamond League shyt and track is big over in Europe. Breh knows fans outside of America will agree with him...playing to his base....the people that will watch him regularly are NOT in the States.
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PARIS — A day after Noah Lyles’ photo-finish win in the men’s 100-meter final, the city was still buzzing about the thrilling way in which the audacious 27-year-old American won Olympic gold.
That included Team USA men’s basketball practice at Marcel Cerdan Sports Complex, where most players and coaches had to live vicariously through those who were there because they did not attend in person. But one of the players who did attend, and who enjoyed seeing Lyles back up all that braggadocio in a race won by a remarkable five one-thousandths of a second over Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, was Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker.
“It was crazy,” Booker said. “I mean, it was great for America. Congrats to him.”
As Booker acknowledged, though, there was a fascinating NBA backdrop to the event that was impossible to ignore. Last summer, after Lyles won the 100-meter final at the World Championships in Budapest and sat at the podium for his post-race news conference, he took issue with the fact that NBA champions are often referred to as “world champions.”
The comment went viral, with American players such as Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard and, yes, Booker (who tweeted a face-palm emoji) sharing their disagreement on social media. Others, among them Greece native and Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, agreed with Lyles’ idea that, with all 30 NBA teams based in North America, the team that wins it all should be considered a league champion.
With that context in mind, how did Booker find the experience?
“I still don’t agree with the comment,” Booker told The Athletic. “I feel like all the best talent in the world is in the NBA, and this is coming from an Olympic gold medalist (who believes) that being an NBA champion is probably harder to do.”
Booker is a resident expert on this topic. Not only did he win gold with Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, when the Americans went 5-1 in the tournament while winning by an average of 25.4 points along the way, but he was the leading man on the Suns team that fell in six games to Milwaukee in the 2021 NBA Finals after leading the series 2-0.
Even still, Booker said, his support for a countryman outweighed any residue that might have remained from Lyles’ comment.
“The statement was said,” Booker said. “I think how it was said — you know, it was just out of context. I feel like it was something that was weighing on his heart for a long time. He’s gained a following since then. He held it down, though, so congrats to him.”
Booker wasn’t the only Team USA men’s basketball participant who witnessed the incredible event in person. He was joined by the team’s managing director and former NBA player Grant Hill, assistant coach Tyronn Lue and teammates Joel Embiid and Jayson Tatum.
“That was dope,” Tatum said of the evening at Stade de France. “That was my first ever track and field event.”
The race is considered by some to be the best 100-meter men’s final of all time, and it wasn’t just the finish that made it so special. In those tension-filled minutes before the starting gun sounded, when the Stade de France crowd of approximately 80,000 lit up amid a purple light show that heightened the senses, the eight sprinters faced a delay that surely challenged the nerves.
Moments later, after all eight men finished in under 10 seconds for the first time in history in a wind-legal 100-meter race and were separated by just 0.12 seconds from first to last, the confusion and emotion was palpable throughout the massive venue when it wasn’t clear who’d won. Lyles and Thompson paced near each other on the track, with the cameras catching Thompson saying, “Come on man! Come on, man!” Lyles, in turn, told him, “I think you’ve got this one, big dog.”
But he did not. Lyles, whose dip at the finish line put him ahead by the slimmest of margins, had set a personal best of 9.79 seconds and fulfilled the goal he’d been chasing since failing to qualify for the 100 at the Tokyo Games in 2021.
Lyles now has a chance to become the first American since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win gold in both the 100 and 200 in the same Olympics (the first round of 200-meter races begins Monday night). And regardless of what anyone wants to call NBA champs, Lyles’ status as the top short-range sprinter in the world is without dispute.
That included Team USA men’s basketball practice at Marcel Cerdan Sports Complex, where most players and coaches had to live vicariously through those who were there because they did not attend in person. But one of the players who did attend, and who enjoyed seeing Lyles back up all that braggadocio in a race won by a remarkable five one-thousandths of a second over Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, was Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker.
“It was crazy,” Booker said. “I mean, it was great for America. Congrats to him.”
As Booker acknowledged, though, there was a fascinating NBA backdrop to the event that was impossible to ignore. Last summer, after Lyles won the 100-meter final at the World Championships in Budapest and sat at the podium for his post-race news conference, he took issue with the fact that NBA champions are often referred to as “world champions.”
The comment went viral, with American players such as Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard and, yes, Booker (who tweeted a face-palm emoji) sharing their disagreement on social media. Others, among them Greece native and Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, agreed with Lyles’ idea that, with all 30 NBA teams based in North America, the team that wins it all should be considered a league champion.
With that context in mind, how did Booker find the experience?
“I still don’t agree with the comment,” Booker told The Athletic. “I feel like all the best talent in the world is in the NBA, and this is coming from an Olympic gold medalist (who believes) that being an NBA champion is probably harder to do.”
Booker is a resident expert on this topic. Not only did he win gold with Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, when the Americans went 5-1 in the tournament while winning by an average of 25.4 points along the way, but he was the leading man on the Suns team that fell in six games to Milwaukee in the 2021 NBA Finals after leading the series 2-0.
Even still, Booker said, his support for a countryman outweighed any residue that might have remained from Lyles’ comment.
“The statement was said,” Booker said. “I think how it was said — you know, it was just out of context. I feel like it was something that was weighing on his heart for a long time. He’s gained a following since then. He held it down, though, so congrats to him.”
Booker wasn’t the only Team USA men’s basketball participant who witnessed the incredible event in person. He was joined by the team’s managing director and former NBA player Grant Hill, assistant coach Tyronn Lue and teammates Joel Embiid and Jayson Tatum.
“That was dope,” Tatum said of the evening at Stade de France. “That was my first ever track and field event.”
The race is considered by some to be the best 100-meter men’s final of all time, and it wasn’t just the finish that made it so special. In those tension-filled minutes before the starting gun sounded, when the Stade de France crowd of approximately 80,000 lit up amid a purple light show that heightened the senses, the eight sprinters faced a delay that surely challenged the nerves.
Moments later, after all eight men finished in under 10 seconds for the first time in history in a wind-legal 100-meter race and were separated by just 0.12 seconds from first to last, the confusion and emotion was palpable throughout the massive venue when it wasn’t clear who’d won. Lyles and Thompson paced near each other on the track, with the cameras catching Thompson saying, “Come on man! Come on, man!” Lyles, in turn, told him, “I think you’ve got this one, big dog.”
But he did not. Lyles, whose dip at the finish line put him ahead by the slimmest of margins, had set a personal best of 9.79 seconds and fulfilled the goal he’d been chasing since failing to qualify for the 100 at the Tokyo Games in 2021.
Lyles now has a chance to become the first American since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win gold in both the 100 and 200 in the same Olympics (the first round of 200-meter races begins Monday night). And regardless of what anyone wants to call NBA champs, Lyles’ status as the top short-range sprinter in the world is without dispute.
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
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Even worse when you consider WHY Joe lived in Philly.That was a serious low for Ali
He seriously did Frazier dirty.
Breh was born in South Carolina and fukked up some white boys. Parents were so scared he'd get lynched that he had to move up North.
Joe Frazier always stood on business. Love Ali but it does track that a lighter skinned breh somehow gets to be the arbiter of Blackness while a damn near Geechie breh that's probably 90%+ Black and very pro-Black for the community is automatically cast as a c00n. Same shyt with Malcolm X (before Mecca). Light skint brehs get to decide which nikkas is "Black enough."
skyrunner1
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I was impressed most he was quick to congratulate Thompson after the final before anyone knew the final results.. To the naked eye alot of people thought he had it..
skyrunner1
Superstar
I just bust out laughing
So, wasn’t that so called ‘cloth’ you’re cut from sullied when yall jumped on and continue to jump on another BLACK MAN for his opinion?!?
And what’s even worse is, as a black man, your lack of knowledge. He said ‘I love the US, at times’. That was everyone’s context clues that he’s not aiming at the NBA , he’s aiming at American hubris and arrogance in general. It’s a balance I’d assume we all understand: being American but understanding how fukked up America is, no?
And I will repeat, PATRICE ONEAL MADE THE SAME COMMENTARY @2:09
What is the title of that clip?
Americans refering to ‘world champions’ is bigger than the NBA, it’s about America hubris. So not only did you catch feelings out of place, you don’t even understand the totality of that statement. As you’re standing up for a league who’s teams are 95% white owned, arenas 100% white owned, managed by a white commissioner, over a team that won (Nuggets) who is white owned, white coached, and who’s best player was white and majority of roster was foreigners and mullatos.
And then have the audacity, the unmitigated gaul to evoke the late great Don Cornelius in your bullshyt. Ngga take that shyt down
Calling them foreigners in they own country..This was a completely different time, its absolutely INSANE the mileage Noah has gotten out of these comments.. Patrice said samething years ago and it was just another joke.. people soo sensitive nowadays it can turn you into a star.
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Man
I saw that about joe having to move. He was legally blind in one eye as well
So the Celtics are the best basketball team in the world but DON’T have the title of world champions
Are the Celtics better than Team USA?
Yall nggas are legitimately stupid
The emotion is clouding your judgement: ‘world champ’ is decided on a country level, not a team level Get out your feelings. Celtics ain’t world champs and neither is Real Madrid or the Guandong Tigers. A country is awarded world champion. Do you understand ?
3/5/7 series?
Lol
Tournament Cups are usually just one game.
No series.
That's the fun.
That's the difficulty.
No team can have a bad day.
LiveFromLondon
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And you African so you sonning yaself more than anything!
You don't even rep yo own continent!
What language did you originally speak before you dikk rode the British?
Imagine going out ya way to speak a different language than ya grandparents!
Are you not African yourself, do you speak any African language 
Mister Terrific
It’s in the name
If you are good enough to earn a 9 figure contract in the NBA you are not “mediocre”. You are amongst the top 1% in the world at what you do. Nobody was “in their feelings”. NBA players rightly feel they were being disrespected when they worked hard to be at the peak of their sport and know for a fact these other humans leagues can’t see them on the court as is proven every time the USA bothers to assemble a full team.
If Lyles feels some type of way, choose another sport that people want to watch more than once every 4 years. NBA players are the stars of the Olympics. Every one wants their picture, every game is packed.
Be mad about it
we winning that gold too.
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Mister Terrific
It’s in the name
NBA exile Kendrick Nunn finds happiness in Europe as EuroLeague champion
They sacrificed a lot all year,” Nunn said, becoming visibly emotional. “To be here all year. Brand new. Not knowing anything. Not knowing anyone. They’ve been holding me down all year. Without them, I couldn’t do it.”
Once things began clicking for Nunn and the more he began getting in sync with his new surroundings, he emerged as one of the most important players for Panathinaikos. He added a new, much-needed dimension to the team’s offensive game, provided leadership, buckets aplenty and several clutch moments. All of them were critical in shaping a squad that was transforming into a contender. Pivotal in changing the Greens’ destiny.
The pinnacle of his pre-Final Four contributions arrived in the playoffs where he averaged 19.2 points (on a superb 16 – 31 threes), 3.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists to lead Panathinaikos past a very tough Maccabi Tel Aviv team. He dropped 27 in a “win-or-go-home” Game 4 for his team and 26, including all sorts of daggers, in the decisive Game 5 victory that followed.
Thanks to these performances, Nunn more or less secured his spot on the All-Euroleague First Team. Multiple basketball experts argued that he maybe also deserved MVP.
Nunn was pivotal also in the Final Four. 14 points against Fenerbahce Beko in the semifinal and 21 points in the championship game to help bring Panathinaikos to the throne of EuroLeague.
NBA exile Kendrick Nunn finds happiness in Europe as EuroLeague champion
Kendrick Nunn completed a debut EuroLeague season for the ages in dreamlike fashion.
www.eurohoops.net
Kendrick fukking Nunn is killing these Europeans
Current EuroLeague MVP is a G-league guy.
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But I agree we should have an NBA vs Euroleage vs China league tournament just for the hilarity of it. The Denver Nuggets in Mid season form putting up 160 points on the Shanghai Sharks.
2 Up 2 Down
Veteran
nikkas are still tight 
Mister Terrific
It’s in the name
I just bust out laughing
So, wasn’t that so called ‘cloth’ you’re cut from sullied when yall jumped on and continue to jump on another BLACK MAN for his opinion?!?
And what’s even worse is, as a black man, your lack of knowledge. He said ‘I love the US, at times’. That was everyone’s context clues that he’s not aiming at the NBA , he’s aiming at American hubris and arrogance in general. It’s a balance I’d assume we all understand: being American but understanding how fukked up America is, no?
And I will repeat, PATRICE ONEAL MADE THE SAME COMMENTARY @2:09
What is the title of that clip?
Americans refering to ‘world champions’ is bigger than the NBA, it’s about America hubris. So not only did you catch feelings out of place, you don’t even understand the totality of that statement. As you’re standing up for a league who’s teams are 95% white owned, arenas 100% white owned, managed by a white commissioner, over a team that won (Nuggets) who is white owned, white coached, and who’s best player was white and majority of roster was foreigners and mullatos.
And then have the audacity, the unmitigated gaul to evoke the late great Don Cornelius in your bullshyt. Ngga take that shyt down
Hubris.
We have 12 nuclear powered aircraft carriers. You don’t. Until you get at least 3 of them bytches we are going to hubristic
Edit: Btw these just jokes. I love Olympic and World Cup days
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