With 2019 coming to a close, it cannot be overstated how much basketball popularity has exploded in Canada. The Toronto Raptors won their first NBA Championship in franchise history and are continuing to show the DNA of a champion to start the 2019/2020 season. The discourse surrounding Canadian Basketball potentially qualifying to the 2020 Olympic…
Early Tuesday morning, news broke that Eli Pasquale had passed away at just 59 years old. To say that Pasquale’s death is a huge loss to the basketball community is a massive understatement. His accomplishments in the sport and for the country of Canada secures his place as one of the nation’s most celebrated athletes.…
The end result of the FIBA 2019 World Cup was not the one that was expected when the tournament began. Team Spain, with four current NBA players on the roster, beat team Argentina, whose only NBA talent was 39 year-old Luis Scola, to win the championship. Team USA, composed entirely of NBA talent, fell to…
Canada didn't have enough offense to compete with the United States
Canada's women's team is dominant thus far through the group stage of the AmeriCup
As Team Canada makes the long journey back home from China, more questions await their return than ever before. The status quo is not perfect. An initial postmortem on the few games played overseas reveals a team with great promise, but lacking the NBA talent to advance further in the competition.
Almost a week ago, I wrote that in opening their FIBA Basketball World Cup showing with two losses to Australia and Lithuania, Team Canada’s World Cup performance was a disappointment. That is no longer entirely the case. Canada dispatched Senegal 82-60 before throttling Jordan 126-71. It was clear in both games that Canada cared desperately…
Canada Basketball continues to struggle
The powerful play goes on, and Team Canada may contribute a verse.
Nick Nurse is an NBA Champion, an Arkells guitarist, and now Canada's newest head coach.
The ‘North’ takeover of the NBA continued on Thursday as six Canadians were selected in the 2019 NBA Draft. It was a historic night, surpassing the then-record of four Canadian picks in 2014 and is the most ever selections for a non-American country. With this draft, the Raptors championship season, and Nick Nurse subsequently being…
Nick Nurse will reportedly be Canada's next bench boss as the country looks to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics.