Canada Olympic Basketball Team 2024 Roster

Team Canada opened with the second-best Olympics betting odds (+900) to take home the gold medal at the BetMGM online sportsbook.

NBA MVP candidates and other rising stars and quality starters/role players around the league largely comprise this unit, which helped the Canadians qualify for its first Olympics since 2000.

Let’s take a look at some of the best players this team has to offer.

Canada Olympic Basketball Team 2024 Roster

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is coming off a season where he finished second in MVP voting to Nikola Jokić, averaging 30.1 points on 53.5% shooting, 6.2 assists, 5.5 rebounds, and two steals per game.

The Kentucky product has established himself as a deadly scorer at the rim and midrange thanks in large part to his excellent footwork and ball-handling skills, converting 66.5% of his shots from less than 5 feet of the rim and 51.7% of his shots between 5-19 feet. 

Gilgeous-Alexander also scored 112 points in clutch situations, good for seventh-best in the league. The Oklahoma City Thunder outscored their opponents by 68 points in his 107 clutch minutes across 34 games, going 23-11 in those games.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has the CLUTCH gene 🧬

He had SEVEN game-tying or go-ahead shots in the final two minutes during the 2023-2024 regular season!

OKC seeks a 2-0 series lead, tonight at 9:30pm/et on TNT 🍿 pic.twitter.com/zapHqv1mp8

— NBA (@NBA) April 24, 2024

The two-time All-NBA guard has also earned a reputation for being one of the premier on-ball and perimeter defenders the NBA has to offer, holding his opponents to 34.2% shooting on looks 15 feet or greater. That ranked fourth among guards who defended at least five of those shots per game and played a minimum of 60 games during the 2023-2024 season. He also was tied for first in steals with De’Aaron Fox, recording 150 total swipes.

Jamal Murray

Jamal Murray has helped turn the Denver Nuggets into a perennial championship contender alongside Jokić, as he averaged 21.2 points on 48.1% shooting, including 42.5% from downtown, 6.5 assists, 4.1 rebounds, and one steal per game during the 2023-2024 season. 

The Kentucky product is also a threat to attack the rim, as he made 62.3% of his shot attempts within 5 feet of the basket. His dunks and circus layups are a sight to behold for many fans in the Mile High City.

Additionally, Murray averaged 21.4 points, 10 assists, 6.2 rebounds, and one steal per game during the 2023 NBA Finals, when they dispatched the Miami Heat in five games.

Murray has ice in his veins as well, which was evident during Denver’s first-round series win over the Los Angeles Lakers in 2024, as he knocked down two game-winning shots, one of which came at the buzzer.

He also dropped 50 points twice in the same first-round playoff series against the Utah Jazz in 2020. 

RJ Barrett

RJ Barrett broke out in his first 32 games with the Toronto Raptors, averaging 21.8 points on 55.3% shooting, 6.4 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game. 

Barrett is at his best when he’s attacking the rim with the ball in his hands or cutting to the basket off the ball, as he made 63.2% of his shots within 5 feet of the rim.

Toronto’s fast-paced, ball-movement-heavy offence helped maximize Barrett’s driving abilities, which has also helped him rack up more dimes by kicking out to the corners due to the defensive attention he commands on the attack.  

The Duke product began his career with the New York Knicks, as he helped them get back to the playoffs for the first time in eight years in 2021.