If everyone actually plays, Canada has never had a stronger hoops team

On paper, the roster — which also includes former No. 3-overall selection R.J. Barrett and fellow NBA players Lu Dort, Dillon Brooks, Kelly Olynyk, Dwight Powell, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Cory Joseph and Oshae Brissett, plus the first-ever Canadian NCAA player of the year, 7-foot-4 Zach Edey and a handful of solid veterans — is easily the best this country has ever assembled. And that’s even without Canada’s other elite player, Andrew Wiggins, and other solid NBAers like Bennedict Mathurin, Andrew Nembhard, Chris Boucher, Trey Lyles and Shaedon Sharpe. Gilgeous-Alexander is fresh...