Jamal Murray brings championship mentality to Canada while working back to form in camp

Jamal Murray is enjoying maintaining a winning mentality, even through the off-season.

The Denver Nuggets guard and newly-minted NBA champion from Kitchener, Ont., is in training camp this week with the Canadian men's senior basketball team after wrapping up his NBA season on June 13. The team is preparing for the upcoming FIBA Men's Basketball World Cup.

"It's fun to just have that mindset year-round," he said. "It's tough obviously to mentally endure all that intensity but that's what make sports, sports.

Murray has also been relishing life as a champion over the past six weeks.

"Just enjoying the wave right now," he said. "It's my first time back home so good to see the [family], good to be around the guys. I'm like speechless. It's hard to describe everything, everything's like a roller-coaster, and it's been a good one."

"Honestly it's like ... a constant trend up and every day is something different. Everybody's saying "champ," it don't get old," he added when asked when it hit him. "I always realize what we accomplished. We did something special and no one can ever take that away."

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Murray — donning the No. 4 jersey and at times even taking left-handed free throws — was the last player practising before speaking to reporters Wednesday at the OVO Athletic Centre in Toronto.

The Canadian squad started camp Tuesday and finishes up Sunday in preparation for the World Cup, which runs from Aug. 25 to Sept. 10.

The 15th-ranked Canadians open Group H play at the 32-team tournament on Aug. 25 against France, followed by Lebanon on Aug. 27 and Latvia on Aug. 29 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The final phase of the tournament will be played in Manila,