Canada collects international gold medals in ice hockey like they’re Molson beer caps in a Montreal pub. They even recently picked up a Women’s soccer gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But when it comes to the hardwood, the Canadian men’s basketball team has not qualified for the Olympics since the year 2000.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander plans to change that.
SGA was just two years old when he watched Steve Nash (before his prime) and Todd MacCulloch serve as the only two NBA players to represent America’s neighbor to the north in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.