Canada drops Americup opener

Photo courtesy Canada Basketball Canada 71, U.S. Virgin Islands 83 | Box Score The FIBA Americup, formerly known as the FIBA Americas tournament, is starting to get on Canada’s nerves a little bit. The last time Canada was in this tournament, they squandered an incredible performance in group stage play with a knock-out stage loss…

Powell and Wright win Nike Crown League

This was never going to be a fair contest. One year after falling to ACE 68-63 in the battle to become Nike Crown League kings, M.A.D.E. took a page out of the Golden State Warriors playbook and stacked the deck in their favor by recruiting Norman Powell and Delon Wright. Despite 6Man putting up a…

Crown League Week 1 Wrap up

The Crown League is back. For the third straight year, Toronto and Nike have come together to showcase basketball at Ryerson University’s Kerr Hall. There are three games between the six teams involved from 6:30pm till about 11:00pm for five weeks. They showed up. They showed out. They showed the city how it’s done. Claim…