Canada Basketball announced Thursday the Senior Men's National Team roster for the upcoming FIBA AmeriCup 2022. The squad includes Chad Posthumus of East St. Paul, Manitoba, who is coming off the CEBL Season with the Ottawa BlackJacks and their 2nd place finish last month.
Before the selection, the team hosted a training camp last week in Victoria, B.C., before departing for Brazil.
Nathaniel Mitchell, who made his Canadian head coaching debut earlier this summer at the inaugural GLOBL JAM, will be the head coach for Canada at the FIBA AmeriCup 2022. Mitchell will be joined on the bench by assistant coaches Dave DeAveiro, Michael Meeks and Scott Morrison.
Canada is in Group A and will face hosts Brazil (Sept. 2, 7:10 p.m. ET), Uruguay (Sept. 3, 4:40 p.m. ET), and Colombia (Sept. 5, 10:10 a.m. ET) in the Group Phase. The two best finishers in each group as well as the two best third-place teams in the competition, will move on to the quarterfinals.
Canada went 3-1 to finish atop Group C in the FIBA AmeriCup 2022 Qualifiers to successfully qualify for the FIBA AmeriCup 2022.
The FIBA AmeriCup was originally scheduled to be held in 2021 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada is currently ranked 18th in the FIBA World Ranking presented by Nike.
Source: https://www.basketball.ca/news/senior-mens-national-team-announced-ahead-of-fiba-americup-2022