{"id":874559,"date":"2026-08-28T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874559\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:54:21","slug":"canada-earns-86-66-fiba-world-cup-americas-qualifying-win-over-panama-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874559\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada earns 86-66 FIBA World Cup Americas qualifying win over Panama | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787921661_112_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Trae Bell-Haynes (2) battles with Bahamas\u2019 Jaraum Burrows (15) during first half FIBA World Cup qualifiers action in Toronto on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Eduardo Lima<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 27, 2026 | 9:54 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>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>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>Kelly Olynyk, the only active NBA player in Canada\u2019s lineup for this game, had eight points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Rodriguez Jr. led 56th-ranked Panama with 17 points, six rebounds and five steals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Trae Bell-Haynes (2) battles with Bahamas\u2019 Jaraum Burrows (15) during first half FIBA World Cup qualifiers action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-874559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874559","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=874559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}