💬 Quoted… “You know the thing that hurts me the most is that I have to watch the NBA finals and they have ‘world champion’ on their head. World champion of what? The United States? Don't get me wrong. I love the US, at times, but that ain't the world… We are the world. We have almost every country out here fighting, thriving, putting on their flag to show that they are represented.”

The above comments, made by US sprinter Noah Lyles in a post-meet press conference at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, have divided NBA players and fans alike. It drew replies from stars like Kevin Durant, who responded with "[s]omebody help this brother," and Draymond Green, who wrote "[w]hen being smart goes wrong." Even Drake weighed in.

• Others, like international sports journalist Gary Al-Smith, have a different perspective. Al-Smith told NPR: “when you hear anything being described as the ‘world championship,’ automatically in your mind, it's [including] different countries competing. We never ever think of a world championship being about one team with multiple nationalities.”

🌁 Stat of the Day: Air pollution is the world’s top threat to public health, responsible for reducing average life expectancy by 2.3 years worldwide, per a new report from Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute. Tobacco use came in second, reducing average global life expectancy by 2.2 years.

🤔 Did You Know?... Rube Goldberg, famous for his “invention drawings” depicting overly complicated machines, is the only person whose name is used as an adjective in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

📰 Worth a Read: US spy satellite agency isn’t so silent about new “Silent Barker” mission → (Ars Technica)