{"id":110736,"date":"2025-09-01T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110736\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T00:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:30:07","slug":"canada-finished-fourth-at-americup-after-loss-to-u-s-in-bronze-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110736\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada finished fourth at AmeriCup after loss to U.S. in bronze medal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANAGUA \u2014 Canada finished fourth at the FIBA Men&#8217;s AmeriCup basketball championship on Sunday after dropping a 9-85 decision to the United States in the battle for bronze.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadians started strong and took a five-point lead in the first quarter before Jahmius Ramsey hit a three-point shot to put the Americans up 15-12.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. didn&#8217;t fall behind again, despite getting outscored by Canada in both the third and fourth quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Javonte Smart and Tyler Cavanaugh each contributed a game-high 21 points for the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Carr had 16 points, four rebounds and seven assists for Canada, while Mfiondu Kabengele added 16 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadians went unbeaten in the tournament until the semifinals where they lost to Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANAGUA \u2014 Canada finished fourth at the FIBA Men&#8217;s AmeriCup basketball championship on Sunday after dropping a 9-85&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2593,49,48,62621,62622,61977,53441,44,44337,62620],"class_list":["post-110736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-basketball-championship","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jahmius-ramsey","tag-javonte-smart","tag-marcus-carr","tag-mfiondu-kabengele","tag-news","tag-the-canadians","tag-tyler-cavanaugh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}