Canada Qualifies For Quarterfinals & Paris Olympics, Lithuania Shocks Team USA!

No Dunks

Sports, Basketball, Comedy

5 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On Sunday's mini-pod, Skeets celebrates Canada defeating Spain in dramatic fashion to advance to the FIBA Basketball World Cup quarterfinals and qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics! That, plus Lithuania shocks Team USA, a look at the quarterfinal schedule, and more. -- 👀 Watch the FIBA World Cup with No Dunks on Playback: https://www.playback.tv/nodunks 👕 Buy No Dunks merch at BreakingT: https://www.nodunks.com 📈 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NoDunksInc 🗞️ Subscribe to The Athletic: http://www.theathletic.com/nodunks 🤔 New Is [This] Good? podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@isthisgood ⚾️ No Bunts with Tas and Joel talkin' baseball: https://bit.ly/3qK7Btb -- Today's episode of brought to you by: • NBA 2K Mobile: Download NBA 2K Mobile free on the AppStore or Google Play and use our promo code TATUM2KMOBILE to redeem an exclusive Jason Tatum Pearl Tier Card! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good day, sweet world, and welcome to the NoDunk podcast on the Athletic Network.
0:20.1	It is Sunday, September 3rd, 2023, but it might as well be July 1st.
0:26.5	As today is Canada Day once again, what's up everybody, I'm Jay Eskies here in the yard.
0:33.8	On cloud 9, shout out to the stream team, shout out to the podcast listeners, shout out
0:40.0	to the basketball gods.
0:43.4	The drought is over.
0:46.4	For the first time in 23 years, the Canadian senior men's national basketball team is
0:52.8	headed to the goddamn Olympics.
0:56.7	Since 2000 they haven't been there, but they have punched their ticket and for the first
1:02.2	time since 1994, Canada have made the World Cup quarterfinals and I am ecstatic.
1:10.3	If you were joining us on playback this morning, you saw me living and dying with every
1:16.6	bucket, every foul called, every decision.
1:20.4	I have not been.
1:21.4	And I don't think I've been that emotionally invested in a game since probably the Raptors
1:25.1	Championship run.
1:26.1	I mean, that was wild.
1:28.1	It was do or die to advance.
1:29.8	It was do or die really to book your ticket to Paris.
1:34.2	Otherwise they would have to play in another qualifying tournament.
1:36.5	No, they're in.
1:38.5	They are one of the final eight teams in the World Cup and they are one of the 12 teams
1:42.0	at the Paris Olympics in 2024.
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