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Nba jam session canada1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() “So these are guys we might be looking at for 2028 and hopefully this gives some of them a chance to play for several years within our system, evaluate them, get more experience playing FIBA, so that by the time they get to the senior level, they have the miles on them they need.”īut the basketball is only part of it, and maybe not even the most important part. “After the U19 age group, if they’re not ready to play on our senior team, then what happens?” says Rowan Barrett, general manager for the men’s national team and Canada Basketball vice-president. The Finals are set for Sunday, and all games are being broadcast on Sportsnet, Canada Basketball’s partner in the event.Īs Canada Basketball works to harness the passion for the sport and the deep Canadian pool of talent and have it translate into medals internationally, the hope is that the U23 teams can provide a bridge for players who play for Canada through the U19 stage – the last age group stop in FIBA competition - to the senior men’s and women’s programs. The semi-finals are Saturday, with the women and men each facing Team USA. The men are 2-1 after outlasting Brazil and USA before falling to Italy on Thursday night. The women – fielding a roster mixed with up-and-coming prospects and younger members of last summer’s Olympic team - are undefeated in round-robin play having pushed past Belgium, USA and France. From a pure basketball point of view, it’s a tournament for U23 men and women being held this week at the Mattamy Athletic Centre on the campus of Toronto Metropolitan University, with four teams in each category. The hope is that over time it becomes the basketball equivalent of the World Junior Championships in hockey, which were a modest, no-frills competition far off the mainstream radar when they began in 1977 but grew into a tentpole event that serves as a cash cow for Hockey Canada and a holiday tradition for hockey fans. ![]() That’s the vision for GLOBL JAM, which is wrapping up the first year of what Canada Basketball hopes will be many more this weekend. A week to watch great competition, see old friends and connect with those who feel the same way.Ī tradition, like homecoming, or a family reunion, but with dunks and better music. The plan is that – eventually, and maybe sooner rather later - it will be a ‘thing’:Ī summer fixture on the calendar of everyone who loves and cares about basketball and wants to be around it. ![]()
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