{"id":2027117,"date":"2023-09-10T07:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-ekes-past-u-s-capture-first-ever-basketball-world-cup-medal\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:43:59","slug":"canada-ekes-past-u-s-capture-first-ever-basketball-world-cup-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-ekes-past-u-s-capture-first-ever-basketball-world-cup-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada narrowly edges out the U.S. to secure historic basketball World Cup medal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanada-ekes-past-u-s-capture-first-ever-basketball-world-cup-medal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2027117&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Canada Makes History with Bronze Medal Finish at FIBA Basketball\u200d World Cup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Neil Jerome Morales<\/p>\n<p>MANILA (Reuters)\u2062 \u2013 Canada achieved\u2064 their first-ever podium finish\u200b at the\u200c FIBA Basketball World Cup, defeating an undermanned United States team 127-118 in an exhilarating overtime battle on Sunday in\u2064 Manila.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>NBA \u2062players Shai Gilgeous-Alexander \u200band \u200cDillon Brooks took \u2064charge in overtime, combining \u2062for\u2063 11 crucial points for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks, who will be\u200c joining the \u200bHouston Rockets next season,\u2064 led the \u2063Canadian team with an impressive 39 points, along with four rebounds and\u200b five \u200dassists.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander, Canada\u2019s top scorer, rebounder, and\u2064 playmaker, finished with 31 points, six rebounds, and 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Due to illness,\u200c Team USA had to\u200d sideline their NBA Rookie \u200bof the Year \u200cPaolo \u2064Banchero, Defensive Player of the Year \u2063Jaren \u200dJackson Jr, and forward\u200d Brandon Ingram.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Team USA&#8217;s leading scorer, contributed 24 points, five\u200d rebounds, and three assists. Fan favorite Austin Reaves provided a spark off the bench\u2062 with 23 points,\u2062 while three other U.S. players scored \u200cin double-digits.<\/p>\n<p>Canada made \u200dhistory in\u2064 the tournament, reaching \u2064the semi-finals for the \u200cfirst time and \u200csecuring a spot in \u200bthe Summer Olympics\u2064 for the first time since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u2064 the\u2063 loss, the\u200d United\u200d States\u2062 improved upon their seventh-place finish in 2019, which was \u200btheir worst-ever result in a major international tournament. 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NBA stars Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dillon Brooks led the charge, contributing 11 points together. The thrilling bronze medal game took place in Manila on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2027118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}