Canada’s 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup roster

Canada had high hopes to make it to the final, but lost to Serbia in semifinals and will now try to beat their neighbors for third place.

Canada’s strongest side ever?

There are 10 NBA players on Jordi Fernandez’s squad heading into the World Cup led by reigning NBA Champion Jamal Murray. Murray was the most important piece, after Nikola Jokic, in the Denver Nuggets run to the Finals and now looks to lead this Canadian team to new heights.

Murray isn’t the only star on the team, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is already an All-Star and was one of the top scorers in the league last season averaging 31.4 points a game which was good enough for fourth among all scorers.

The Canadian team had their sights set on winning the World Cup, but crossed paths with a strong Serbia team. They were placed in Group H with France, Latvia and Lebanon. France and Lativa.

Great pre-World Cup run

After going 11-1 in World Cup Qualifiers, which was best of any team that made the tournament, they won three of their five exhibition games. They lost their first and last warm up match, to Germany and Dominican Republic respectively. In between that they beat New Zealand, Germany in a revenge game and defending champions Spain.

Canada’s Roster

F Kyle Alexander, Hapoel Tel Aviv (ESP)

G Nickeli Alexander-Walker, Minnesota Timberwolves

G/F RJ Barrett, New York Knicks

G Trae Bell-Haynes, Casademont Zaragoza (ESP)

F Oshae Brissett, Boston Celtics

F Dillon Brooks, Houston Rockets

G Luguentz Dort, OKC Thunder

C Zach Edey, Purdue

F Melvin Ejim, Unicaja

G Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC Thunder

G Cory Joseph, Golden State Warriors

G Jamal Murray, Denver Nuggets

C Kelly Olynyk, Utah Jazz

F Kevin Pangos, Olimpia Milano

F/C Dwight Powell, Dallas Mavericks

G Kassius Robertson, Scarborough Shooting Stars

G Phil Scrubb, Niagara River Lions

F Thomas Scrubb, Ottowa Black Jacks