Once upon a time it was a rarity to see an impact Canadian player in the NBA and the men’s national team only qualified for the Olympics sporadically. But this fall marked the 12th year in a row that Canada trailed only the United States in NBA players — 25 in all, including reigning league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — and there are high hopes that Canada can earn a medal at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles after winning bronze at the 2023 FIBA World Cup and playing mostly well at the 2024 Olympic Games in France.

Plenty has been written about the growth of basketball over the last half-decade or so, but precious little about how we got here. That’s where Toronto-based sportswriter Oren Weisfeld’s new book The Golden Generation: How Canada Became A Basketball Powerhouse comes in.

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