{"id":874503,"date":"2026-08-28T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874503\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:44:12","slug":"canada-earns-fiba-world-cup-americas-qualifying-win-over-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874503\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada earns FIBA World Cup Americas qualifying win over Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PANAMA CITY \u2014 Trae Bell-Haynes led the way with 18 points and 11 assists as Canada defeated Panama 86-66 in FIBA World Cup Americas qualiyfing action on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marcus Carr added 15 points and 12 assists for fifth-ranked Canada, which improved to 7-0 and sits atop Group F. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kelly-olynyk\/514882\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kelly-olynyk\/514882\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Olynyk<\/a>, the only active NBA player in Canada\u2019s lineup for this game, had eight points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Luis Rodriguez Jr. led 56th-ranked Panama with 17 points, six rebounds and five steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The three best teams in each of the two remaining groups and the best overall fourth-place team will qualify for the 2027 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadians will next host eighth-ranked Argentina in Quebec City on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANAMA CITY \u2014 Trae Bell-Haynes led the way with 18 points and 11 assists as Canada defeated Panama&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-874503","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\/874503","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=874503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}