{"id":458767,"date":"2023-09-10T21:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458767"},"modified":"2023-09-10T21:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:28:49","slug":"canada-edges-out-us-127-118-in-ot-to-clinch-bronze-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-edges-out-us-127-118-in-ot-to-clinch-bronze-at-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada edges out US 127-118 in OT to clinch bronze at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada came out on top against the US in a hard-fought match 127-118 in OT to clinch the bronze medal at the Basketball World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Josh Hart as the US falls to Canada in overtime 127-118:<\/p>\n<p>10 points<br \/>4-4 shooting<br \/>2 assists <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bseaBwVf72\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bseaBwVf72<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA_NewYork\/status\/1700823508815696002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dillon Brooks, as expected, was the standout player with 39 points, while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added another 31 points with 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The win is a huge milestone for Canada, who claim their first medal in 87 years, while the US fail to convert for a second year running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States hasn\u2019t won the World Cup since 2014,\u201d U.S. coach Steve Kerr said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard. These teams in FIBA are really good, well-coached, they\u2019ve got continuity and they\u2019ve played together for a long time. This is difficult and it\u2019s been difficult already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US came into the match as favorites as well, but again fell short of expectations.<\/p>\n<p>They did claw back in the final second of regulations to send the game in overtime, but the Canadians remained fully focused and closed out the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team was amazing, special,\u201d Canada coach Jordi Fernandez said. \u201cIt\u2019s the beginning of something that\u2019s going to last for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada came out on top against the US in a hard-fought match 127-118 in OT to clinch the bronze medal at the Basketball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458768,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16943],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19551,21327],"acf":{"announce":"The Canadians just managed to hold off the Americans","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458770,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458767\/revisions\/458770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458767"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458767"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}