{"id":691584,"date":"2026-05-24T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691584\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:55:10","slug":"grande-prairie-basketball-player-to-try-out-for-a-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691584\/","title":{"rendered":"Grande Prairie basketball player to try out for a national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c7e396cb-abf4-4ae7-8f59-bd7bab2c84c9-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: ID 17516508 \u00a9 Viorel Dudau | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By Curtis Galbraith<\/p>\n<p>Basketball<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 24, 2026 | 6:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A basketball player originally from Grande Prairie has been invited to try out for a national team.<\/p>\n<p>Deng Ngor is among the 18 players invited to a <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.ca\/news\/u18-mens-national-team-training-camp-roster-announced-ahead-of-toronto-camp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tryout camp<\/a> for Canada\u2019s U18 \u00a0Men\u2019s National Team.<\/p>\n<p>The final 12 selected will represent our country at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-u18-americup-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">FIBA U18 AmeriCup <\/a>June 1-7 in Leon, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Eight trams will take part. Canada is in Group B with the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: ID 17516508 \u00a9 Viorel Dudau | Dreamstime.com) By Curtis Galbraith Basketball May 24, 2026 | 6:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-691584","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\/691584","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=691584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}