{"id":396471,"date":"2024-07-10T20:14:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=396471"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:14:40","slug":"canada-announces-roster-for-paris-2024-olympics-lots-of-nba-jamal-murray-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/canada-announces-roster-for-paris-2024-olympics-lots-of-nba-jamal-murray-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada announces roster for Paris 2024 Olympics: lots of NBA, Jamal Murray returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada Basketball and the Canadian Olympic Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.ca\/news\/team-canadas-paris-2024-mens-basketball-team-unveiled\">have announced<\/a> the roster that will defend Canada&#8217;s colors at the Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The athletes are:<\/p>\n<p>Nickeil Alexander-Walker (Toronto, Ont.)<\/p>\n<p>RJ Barrett (Mississauga, Ont.)<\/p>\n<p>Khem Birch (Montreal, Que.)<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Brooks (Mississauga, Ont.)<\/p>\n<p>Luguentz Dort (Montreal, Que.)<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Ejim (Toronto, Ont.)<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Hamilton, Ont.)<\/p>\n<p>Trey Lyles (Saskatoon, Sask.)<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray (Kitchener, Ont.)<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Nembhard (Aurora, Ont.)<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Olynyk (Kamloops, B.C.)<\/p>\n<p>Dwight Powell (Toronto, Ont.)<\/p>\n<p>Birch and Ejim the only two in CT Fernandez&#8217;s group who did not spend last season in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Great anticipation for the return of Murray, who will form a super backcourt along with Gilgeous-Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we opened camp in Toronto last week, I challenged each of the players to improve one percent each day, and every day since I\u2019ve witnessed the work and dedication they have put in,\u201d said Fern\u00e1ndez. \u201cWith 17 days to go until our first game of the tournament, that\u2019s an opportunity to get 17% better. From the players to the coaches to the staff, the incredible opportunity ahead of us to do something truly historic for Canada this summer is not lost on anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Stand on Guard \ud83c\udf41<\/p>\n<p>Proud to announce our 1\u20e32\u20e3 senior men&#8217;s national team athletes who will represent Canada at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ggeLwOyJzM\">https:\/\/t.co\/ggeLwOyJzM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canada Basketball (@CanBball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanBball\/status\/1811083823741882390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CT Jordi Fernandez: &#8220;From the players to the coaches to the staff, the incredible opportunity ahead of us to do something truly historic for Canada this summer is not lost on anyone&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":396468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-396471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympic-games"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-canada-roster-photo-fiba.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396471"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=396471"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=396471"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=396471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}