There's more coming for Canadian basketball this summer

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It's been a big month for Canadian basketball. After Andrew Wiggins played a key role in the Golden State Warriors' recapturing the NBA title, Canada's Bennedict Mathurin and Shaedon Sharpe were picked sixth and seventh overall in the draft and Andrew Nembhard and Caleb Houstan went at the top of the second round. Last weekend, Canada won its first-ever medal at the 3-on-3 World Cup when the women's team captured a surprising silver in Belgium.

As we move into July, here's what to watch for in the Canadian hoops sphere over the summer:

The men's national team resumes its road to the Olympics this long weekend.

A pair of World Cup qualifiers are on tap over the next few days: vs. the Dominican Republic on Canada Day in Hamilton, and at the Virgin Islands on Monday. Canada is 8-0 through two windows of qualifying, with four more to go (after this one, they're Aug. 22-30, Nov. 7-15 and Feb. 20-28). Seven teams from the Americas region will make it to next summer's 32-team World Cup, which will serve as a direct qualifier for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Despite a stunning rise in the quality and quantity of Canadian NBA players in recent years (the United States is the only country with more guys currently in the league), Canada hasn't qualified a men's team for the Olympics since Steve Nash led his squad to the quarter-finals in 2000 in Sydney. The drought looked like it would end last summer when Canada had home-court advantage for a last-chance qualifying tournament in Victoria against a set of lacklustre opponents. But several of the team's NBA players bowed out, and the