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Who's the Canadian team of the year?

14.12.2023 - 17:15 cbc.ca

This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what's happening in sports by subscribing here. On Monday, basketball star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won the Northern Star Award for Canadian athlete of the year.

The Northern Star voters don't pick a team of the year, but The Canadian Press will later this month. So, who should get it?

Here are my top two candidates for Canadian team of the year, plus some other squads worthy of recognition: Canadian men's basketball team Led by Gilgeous-Alexander, the squad took Canadian fans on quite the ride at this summer's Basketball World Cup in Asia.

First, they ended decades of frustration by defeating Spain in a Labour Day thriller to clinch Canada's first Olympic men's basketball berth since 2000.

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