The "world champion" title isn't new for American sprinter Noah Lyles, and he ruffled some NBA stars' feathers when he gave his opinion on what it means.

The 26-year-old won his third straight 200-meter world title at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest this past weekend in the third fastest time ever. That was only one of his three medals of the competition. He also won 100-meter gold, becoming the first person to sweep the 100 and 200 since Usain Bolt in 2015.

After anchoring the U.S. 4x100m relay to first place and adding another medal to the tally, he used his final media conference of the meet to get some things off his chest:

ESPN shared Lyles' take on Instagram and it didn't take long for Phoenix Suns stars Kevin Durant and Devin Booker, Golden State Warriors veteran Draymond Green, Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers and Miami Heat's Bam Adebayo to sound off in the comments.

"Somebody help this brother," Durant said. Meanwhile, Booker chimed in with a singular face-palm emoji. “Lol is somebody going to tell him??” Adebayo wrote. "Why bro care so much?" Sacramento Kings star De'Aaron Fox asked on X with a crying, laughing emoji.

For Lillard, “Tf” and two laughing emojis did the job. Green's comment read, “When being smart goes wrong.”

The NBA prides itself on being an international league. The best of the best come from all over the globe to play in the NBA. No. 1 overall pick Victor Wembanyama of France is a great example. Nuggets MVP Nikola Jokić is from Serbia. More current international stars include Giannis Antetokounmpo and Luka Dončić, and the list goes on.

If the NBA being widely viewed as the pinnacle of the sport wasn't enough, the U.S. international basketball team has been dominant for years, claiming 16 gold medals at the Olympic Games, five at the FIBA World Cup and seven at the FIBA AmeriCup.

Lyles' comments had some adverse timing as well, as the United States easily advanced to the second round of the FIBA World Cup with a win over Greece on Monday. On the same day, Dončić scored 34 points in Slovenia's blowout win.

But there's another layer to Lyles' comments that was clipped off from most social media pages. The track star is striving to put track into mainstream conversation, and he's done that. He and Bolt are the only three-time World gold medalists in the men's 200. When Lyles ran in Jamaica earlier this summer, Bolt told him track needed his personality.

Lyles is currently being filmed for an NBC Sports documentary and will also be featured in a Netflix series on the 100-meter. He wants the sport to have more visibility.

He may have had better luck conveying that sentiment if he'd called out the NFL.