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   From: trudeau-losers@cnn.com   
      
   Canada again failed to qualify for the Olympic men’s basketball   
   tournament. Its last appearance was at the 2000 Sydney Games   
   with a team led by Steve Nash.   
      
   A Canadian team with eight NBA players lost 103-101 to a Czech   
   Republic team with one NBA player in the semifinals of a last-   
   chance Olympic qualifier in Victoria, British Columbia, on   
   Saturday.   
      
   The Czechs’ one NBA player, Tomas Satoransky, banked in a jump   
   shot in the final seconds of overtime.   
      
   The Czechs advance to a winner-to-Tokyo final against Turkey or   
   Greece on Sunday. Canada, coached by Nick Nurse of the Toronto   
   Raptors, is eliminated from Olympic qualifying.   
      
   Canada boasts the most NBA players of any nation other than the   
   U.S., but suffered another stunning elimination from Olympic   
   qualifying to a less-heralded basketball nation.   
      
   In 2015, a Canadian team with nine NBA players lost 79-78 to   
   Venezuela, with zero NBA players, in a winner-to-Rio Olympics   
   game at an Americas qualifying tournament. Canada lost another   
   winner-to-Rio game to France at a last-chance tournament.   
      
   This year’s team had 2014 NBA No. 1 overall draft pick Andrew   
   Wiggins and standout New York Knicks standout RJ Barrett, but   
   lacked its top two scorers from the NBA, the injured Jamal   
   Murray and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and its top NBA big man,   
   Kelly Olynyk.   
      
   At Canada’s last Olympic appearance in 2000, Nash led a scrappy   
   team that nearly reached the medal round. Nash and center Todd   
   MacCulloch were their only NBA players. Nash’s devotion was such   
   that he was reportedly sobbing and had to be dragged off the   
   floor after Canada lost in the quarterfinals to eventual silver   
   medalist France.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/canada-stunned-olympic-men-basketball-   
   225754109.html   
       
      
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