From left: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, RJ Barrett, Luguentz Dort, Dwight Powell and Dillon Brooks are members of Canada's men's basketball team, which will compete in an Olympic tournament this summer for the first time since 2000 in Sydney.
NBA stars Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Andrew Wiggins and Jamal Murray will lead the Canadian men's basketball team at the Paris Olympics in July.From left: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, RJ Barrett, Luguentz Dort, Dwight Powell and Dillon Brooks are members of Canada's men's basketball team, which will compete in an Olympic tournament this summer for the first time since 2000 in Sydney.
Canada Basketball made the announcement Wednesday afternoon and said a training camp will be held from June 28 to July 7 in Toronto. The team is coming off a historic 2023 where it won its first-ever medal at a FIBA World Cup, defeating the United States for bronze last September in Manila, Philippines.
Canada qualified for the Olympics with a quarterfinal victory over Spain at the tournament. The men's appearance in Paris will be the program's first since the Sydney Games in 2000. The seventh-ranked Canadians are in Group A with Australia and the winners of Olympic qualifying tournaments in Spain and Greece.With berth to 2024 Olympics, Canada erases decades of men's basketball miserySacramento Kings' Jordi Fernandez to replace Nick Nurse as Canada's head coach
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