Wednesday in the first of five exhibition games ahead of the Paris Olympics in 2024, Team USA challenges Canada.
USA vs CANADA basketball 2024 Tonight in Las Vegas, a North American clash between the United States and Canada sets off the USA Basketball Showcase, five exhibition games to be held over two weeks in readiness for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
USA 86; Canada 72; box score
Last meeting precisely ten months ago in the bronze medal game of the 2023 FIBA World Cup were Team USA and Team Canada. In an overtime spectacular, Canada won.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dillon Brooks together scored 70 points to guide Team Canada into victory.
Mikal Bridges deliberately missed a free shot, grabbed his own rebound, dribbled one to reach the corner and knocked down a fadeaway. Mikal forced OT 3. History for Canada: Following the 1936 Olympics, the Canadians won their first medal in a significant international basketball competition as well as their first-ever World Cup medal.
With noteworthy acquisitions of Jamal Murray, Trey Lyles, and Andrew Nembhard, lineup Canada will mostly be returning much of its World Cup lineup for the Olympics. Of all the nations outside the US, Canada contributes the most current NBA players—10—to the Olympics.
On the other hand, Team USA adds ten NBA All-Stars headed by four former league MVPs in LeBron James (4x), Steph Curry (2x), Kevin Durant and Joel Embiid, only returning two players from its World Cup team: Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Haliburton.
All-NBA First Team: Both sides highlight one member of the 2023–24 the-NBA First Team: SGA for Canada and Jayson Tatum for the US; Team USA has a 9-1 edge among the three. Teams from all-natural basketball
Team USA brought four members from both the All-NBA Second Team (Anthony Davis, Durant, Edwards, Kawhi Leonard) and Third Team (Devin Booker, Curry, Haliburton, LeBron).
Durant is Out: KD — Team USA’s all-time top scorer in the Olympics – has been ruled out because of calf pain that has hampered him during training camp in Las Vegas
Early Test: Canada offers Team USA a hard test given NBA talent and more team cohesion, when the Americans take the court for the first time as a unit this summer.