in the one step forward, two steps back habit of basketball in Canada, the first men’s national team to make it to the world championships in eight years is very likely to return home without a win.
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Just two day into the FIBA World Championship and one thing is crystal clear.
The 24-team FIBA World Championship is the hardest, most competitive international event around.
The numbers don’t l...
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Basketball was invented by a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith, in 1891. However, basketball has never been flourished in this country. Canada has long been considered a hockey nation. Basketball continu...
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PART 1: PLAYER BY PLAYER
BY TIM DAVID HARVEY
1995, It was all a dream. 15 years later it's time to wake up now. Y'all been sleeping? Sure Team USA isn't as infamous as past American teams. Coach...
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ISTANBUL (2010 FIBA World Championship) – Hosts Turkey got off to a dream start at the 2010 FIBA World Championship scoring the game’s first 14 points on four three-pointers and a dunk on....
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Leo Rautins Head Coach of Canada's National team decided to send home point guard Tyler Kepkay and forward Kyle Landry. Rautins had tough decisions to make due to various injuries to key players. The ...
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The list itself is not suprising. Rondo decided to back out due to personal reasons.
Derek will run the point and will be an nightmare to guard.
The familiarity of Russell Westbrook and Kevin D...
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Ricky Rubio continued to impress despite Spain's 86-85 loss to the United States in a friendly game Sunday.
The teenage point guard scored seven points and had three assists for Spain, and proved t...
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After practice Friday, Team USA guard Russell Westbrook and said all the right things. He said he was not worried about being the final cut on Team USA, that he had not spoken with Coach Mike Krzyzews...
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Canada’s senior men’s basketball team fell to Argentina 79-64 on Saturday in its opening match of the Efes Pilsen World Cup, a warmup tournament ahead of next week’s world championships.
Carlos Del...
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Jesse Young is at a crossroads with his basketball-playing career but with the way other things are going on in his life right now, he is hardly discouraged.
The 30-year-old Peterborough native, wi...
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FIBA unconditionally condemns the violence that occurred during the Final of the Acropolis tournament between Greece and Serbia that was played in Athens, Greece.
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Whoa … anyone who thinks these “friendly” games in the runup to the 2010 FIBA World Championship don’t matter to the teams involved certainly wasn’t paying attention the literal battle that ensu...
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Serbia basketball player Nenad Krstic, a center for the Oklahoma City Thunder, was released Friday after being held in police custody overnight following a chaotic brawl during a match with Greece.
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Spain extended their unbeaten run in the build-up to the FIBA World Championship but Brazil suffered a double blow as Anderson Varejao sprained his ankle in an 84-68 loss in Logrono.
Brazil now fac...
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Coach Leo Rautins just wants his Canadian men’s national basketball team to be in good health when they reach the world championship in Turkey at the end of the month.
Topping the list of concerns ...
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