Edilson J. Silva

Edilson is currently the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of BasketballBuzz.ca. With over 20-plus years of pushing Canadian Basketball, he works with a solid group of content creators, contributors and major advertising brands to create unique and amazing user experiences.

FIBA

Canada draws Group A for 2011 FIBA Americas in Argentina

The 2011 FIBA Americas will take place in Mar Del Plata, Argentina and the final group pairs have been announced. The tournament runs from...

Edilson J. SilvaJanuary 27, 2011

U Sports

Weekly Top 5: Ravens Tyson Hinz showing flashes of brilliance

After a month-long hiatus, the CIS Men’s Basketball regular season resumed with plenty of sizzling action and great individuals performances. Take a look at...

Edilson J. SilvaJanuary 10, 2011

U Sports

CIS Weekly Top 5: Spartans Jacob Doerksen show continues

The CIS Men’s basketball season official concluded its first half schedule as teams take their annual end of year break. Below are your top...

Edilson J. SilvaDecember 8, 2010

NCAA

Devoe Joseph Returns Gophers drop first game of the season

Good signs, doesn’t look Devoe Joseph missed a beat, he came off the bench and dropped 16 points. However, the Gophers did drop a...

Edilson J. SilvaNovember 29, 2010

U Sports

Weekly Top 5: Cougars Paul Gareau enjoys career day

With the first half of the CIS Men’s basketball season coming to a close, below are the Top 5 players who put in work...

Edilson J. SilvaNovember 28, 2010

U Sports

Weekly Top 5: Huskies Rejean Chabot continues to dominate

Below are some of the most notable performers for CIS Basketball men’s games between November 19-20, 2010. #12 Rejean Chabot – Saskatchewan Huskies –...

Edilson J. SilvaNovember 22, 2010

U Sports

Golden Hawks Kale Harrison leads Top 5 CIS men’s basketball performers

Here’s a quick glance at some of the top 5 performances of the week (November 9 – November 14, 2010) in CIS Men’s Basketball...

Edilson J. SilvaNovember 15, 2010

NCAA

Tristan Thompson earns player of the game leads Texas Longhorns 89-58 win

Tristan Thompson was all over the court scoring on offence and rebounding on defence, shooting right- and left-handed all night. If he keeps up...

Edilson J. SilvaNovember 10, 2010

NCAA

Canadian Tristan Thompson Impressive In Texas Longhorns NCAA Debut

Clearly, the attention for Canadian NCAA Basketball fans is centred around the Texas Longhorns and their Canadian freshmen duo of Cory Joseph and Tristan...

Edilson J. SilvaNovember 8, 2010

U Sports

Isaac Kuon leads CIS basketball top performers

With the CIS basketball season officially underway, here are your top performers across the country for an action packed Friday, Nov 5, 2010. Isaac...

Edilson J. SilvaNovember 5, 2010

NBA

Canada predicted to have five NBA first round picks by 2013?

In a recent radio interview with Bob McCown of Toronto’s Fan 590 the current President/CEO of Canada Basketball Wayne Parrish stated that Nike International...

Edilson J. SilvaOctober 19, 2010

FIBA

Leo Rautins Inks Two More Years to Canada Basketball Contract

Leo Rautins the current Head Coach of Canada’s Senior Men’s Basketball Team has been awarded a two-year contract extension despite the team’s inability to...

Edilson J. SilvaOctober 18, 2010

NCAA

Canadian Point Guard Kevin Pangos inks with Gonzaga Bulldogs

Talented Canadian point-guard Kevin Pangos commits to Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs

Edilson J. SilvaOctober 5, 2010

FIBA

Is Leo Rautins preventing Steve Nash from playing on the Canadian National Team? Barbosa Thinks So.

What’s the deal? I’m sure Canada Basketball officials were impressed to hear Leandro Barbosa, the Toronto Raptors new guard, pass this on from his...

Edilson J. SilvaSeptember 29, 2010

FIBA

TSN2 to broadcast 2010 FIBA World Championship

It looks like TSN has taken yet another semi-major sports property from The Score, this time its rights to Canadian men’s basketball team games....

Edilson J. SilvaAugust 19, 2010

High School

Is Canada's Khem Birch ready for the NBA?

Canada's Khem Birch dominated the 2010 Nike Global Challenge. Is Birch ready for the NBA?

Edilson J. SilvaAugust 9, 2010