By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
After winning the 100-meter gold medal in the 2024 Olympic Games, USA star sprinter Noah Lyles revealed that wasn’t exactly certain if USA Basketball players who attended the race in Stade de France were there to cheer for him.
“I mean, I hope they enjoyed the show. I don’t know if they came in support or just to see me fail,” Lyles had said in an interview.
Back in the USA, there was one NBA player in particular who simply didn’t want Lyles to win the race.
“I really wanted him to lose. Damn I wanted him to lose,” admitted New York Knicks swingman Josh Hart during the latest episode of The Roomates Show that he hosts with teammate Jalen Brunson. “I was just hating and I was like… damn. Respect. I can’t even hate no more.”
Hart apparently felt that way after Lyles criticized the fact that the team that wins the NBA championship is called World Champion. “World Champions of what? The United States?” Lyles famously said after winning his third straight gold medal in the2023 World Athletics Championship.
Lyles was slammed for his words by NBA players, including Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Damian Lillard. “I think it was the first time the NBA Twitter banded together and they were just hating,” Hart said on Lyles competing in the Olympics.
Josh Hart on Noah Lyles:
“I really wanted him to lose… you know what, respect. I can’t even hate no more.”
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