{"id":785237,"date":"2026-07-07T03:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785237\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:34:11","slug":"canada-improves-to-6-0-in-fiba-world-cup-qualifying-with-win-vs-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785237\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada improves to 6-0 in FIBA World Cup qualifying with win vs. Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s six wins in six tries for Canada in FIBA Americas World Cup qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Led by back-to-back reigning NBA MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/shai-gilgeous-alexander\/d9ea4a8f-ff51-408d-b518-980efc2a35a1\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"d9ea4a8f-ff51-408d-b518-980efc2a35a1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>, playing in his hometown, Canada stayed perfect with a 116-78 win over Jamaica on Monday night in Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Canada led by 17 points in both the first and second intervals, then ballooned its lead to 32 points ahead of a final frame that would see the visitors outscored by another six points.<\/p>\n<p>Three nights after Gilgeous-Alexander led the way with 26 points in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/article\/gilegeous-alexander-stars-as-canada-routs-puerto-rico-in-fiba-world-cup-qualifier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Canada\u2019s win over Puerto Rico<\/a>, he put in a more well-rounded effort with 16 points, five assists, four boards and four steals.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s win wraps up a dominant first round of qualifying, as it finished atop the group at 6-0 and with a point differential of +133 \u2014 151 points higher than second-place Bahamas&#8217; minus-18-point difference.<\/p>\n<p>It will now turn its attention to the second and final round of FIBA Americas World Cup qualifying, which will begin Aug. 27, with the top-three finishers qualifying for next summer\u2019s FIBA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s six wins in six tries for Canada in FIBA Americas World Cup qualifying. Led by back-to-back reigning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-785237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785237","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=785237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}