{"id":65097,"date":"2025-08-13T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65097\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:55:11","slug":"mfiondu-kabengele-and-isiaha-mike-called-up-by-canada-for-americup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65097\/","title":{"rendered":"Mfiondu Kabengele and Isiaha Mike called up by Canada for AmeriCup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eurohoops team \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/fiba\/1856597\/canada-fiba-americup-2025-14-man-preliminary-list-mfiondu-kabengele-isiaha-mike\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After dragging Germany to the top of the world in 2023, coach Gordie Herbert begins a new era with Canada, as they are approaching FIBA AmeriCup 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich\u2019s head coach decided to call up 14 players in a preliminary roster ahead of the start of the competition, which will take place in Nicaragua from 22-31 August.<\/p>\n<p>Among them, both the newcomer at BC Dubai, Mfiondu Kabengele, and Isiaha Mike, who spent the 2024-25 season at Partizan Belgrade, are present.<\/p>\n<p>Mfiondu Kabengele\u2019s former teammate at Reyer Venice, Kyle Wiltjer, is present too, alongside Trae Bell-Haynes and Thomas Kennedy, who spent the last two seasons in Telekom Baskets Bonn.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it\u2019s worth mentioning that Kyshawn George, who has been playing in the NBA with Washington since 2024, will switch to Canada after representing Switzerland U16.<\/p>\n<p>Canada isn\u2019t the only national team that has called up players with overseas experience. Team USA decided to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/fiba\/1855552\/eight-european-basketball-representatives-on-usa-fiba-americup-roster-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">eight players<\/a> with significant European experience, including Jerian Grant.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CREDIT: FIBA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/latest-news\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read all the latest news from the basketball world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net After dragging Germany to the top of the world in 2023, coach Gordie Herbert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-65097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}