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National Post
National Post
8 Aug 2024


NextImg:Why Canada Basketball might have blown its best chance with Olympic flameout

After so many years of waiting, did Canada blow its best shot at winning an Olympic men’s basketball medal?

Will another chance like this come around or was that it?

Those questions and more need to be asked in the wake of Canada’s latest hoops heartbreak, a demoralizing quarterfinal defeat at the hands of France on Tuesday in Paris.

Canada never has had a more talented roster — 10 NBA players made the trip, including the MVP runner-up Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — and found a way to avoid meeting the powerful United States or Nikola Jokic-led Serbia until a potential gold-medal matchup. Yet, they laid an egg in epic fashion.