World Basketball News: The Canadian National Team is bringing full force to compete in the upcoming FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. A number of big names such as Jamal Murray, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and RJ Barrett will take part in the once every four year event.
As one of the teams that will be taking part in the Indonesia Arena, Canada surprised everyone by announcing their squad. They didn’t seem to be messing around at this World Cup. Canada has announced 18 names of players who will attend training camp in Toronto in August. After the training camp, 12 players will fly to Jakarta.
Here are the 18 players called up for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 training camp:
- Kyle Alexander (Valencia)
- Nickeil Alexander-Walker (Minnesota Timberwolves)
- RJ Barrett (New York Knicks)
- Trae Bell-Haynes (Casademont Zaragoza)
- Oshae Brissett (Boston Celtics)
- Dillon Brooks (Houston Rockets)
- Luguentz Dort (Oklahoma City Thunder)
- Zach Edey (Purdue Boilermakers)
- Melvin Ejim (Unicaja)
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City Thunder)
- Cory Joseph (Golden State Warriors)
- Jamal Murray (Denver Nuggets)
- Kelly Olynyk (Utah Jazz)
- Kevin Pangos (Olympia Milano)
- Dwight Powell (Dallas Mavericks)
- Kassius Robertson (Scarborough Shooting Stars)
- Phil Scrubb (Niagara River Lions)
- Thomas Scrubb (Ottawa BlackJacks)
One name Canadians may not have mentioned is Andrew Wiggins. However, even without Wiggins, their team still looks terrible. Jamal Murray, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and RJ Barrett are star players in the NBA averaging over 20 points per game (except Barrett, who is just 19 points per game).
Tags: FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, Jamal Murray
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