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Andrew and Ryan Nembhard grew up playing basketball together, starting with a Little Tikes net in their family living room, but it has been more than a decade since they have played together on a competitive team.<\/p>\n
The brothers from Aurora, Ont., are both on Canada’s men’s national team for the current FIBA Americas World Cup qualifying window. The Nembhards helped Canada beat Puerto Rico 110-84 on Friday and were on the court in Hamilton again on Monday against Jamaica, where they registered a 116-78 victory.<\/p>\n
“Seventh grade, eighth grade, we played middle school basketball together,” said 26-year-old Andrew, who is three years older than Ryan. “It’s going to be a lot of fun just having him around, being able to compete together on the same side of the floor.”<\/p>\n
Ryan Nembhard, fresh off his rookie season with the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, has been looking forward to playing with his brother.<\/p>\n
“First time since, like, elementary school,” said Ryan. “It’ll be fun. It’s cool to just be out there with everybody. Great group of guys, so I’m excited.”<\/p>\n
When rookies are introduced to new teams, they’re usually paired with a veteran player to show them the ropes. Andrew said he was probably Ryan’s de facto veteran.<\/p>\n
“I guess so? I feel like I’m still one of the young guys,” said the older Nembhard at Canada’s training camp. “He’ll figure it out on the fly by watching and observing.”<\/p>\n
NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 26 points<\/p>\n
Andrew Nembhard impressed in Canada’s rout of Puerto Rico at Hamilton’s TD Coliseum with 23 points, five rebounds, four assists and a steal. He was leading all scorers in the game until two-time NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 10 points in the fourth quarter to finish with 26 in front of his hometown crowd.<\/p>\n
Ryan Nembhard had four points, two assists and two steals in his 11 minutes of play in his senior team debut on Friday.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Andrew Nembhard had 17 points, four rebounds and four assists in 21 minutes of action, while brother Ryan had three points, three rebounds and five assists in 18:24 of action.<\/p>\n
“It’s special. I’m excited for the opportunity to, of course, always have a great time playing on the young teams with some of my best friends,” said the younger Nembhard, who represented Canada at the 2018 FIBA under-16 Americas Championship and again at the 2021 FIBA under-19 World Cup. “It’s always nice to represent the country and look forward to doing it again.”<\/p>\n
Andrew Nembhard had 16.9 points, 7.7 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game for the Indiana Pacers over 57 games in the 2025-26 season. Ryan Nembhard averaged 6.6 points, 5.3 assists and 2.2 rebounds over 60 games with Dallas last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-785283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785283","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=785283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}