Lyles led Tech to the 2014 state basketball title, while Nembhard just finished his second season with the Indiana Pacers.
LAS VEGAS — Canada finalized its men’s basketball roster for the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, with eight of the 12 players selected having been part of the run to a bronze medal at last summer’s World Cup.
Arsenal Tech graduate Trey Lyles and Indiana Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard are among the players on Team Canada’s roster.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Dillon Brooks, Kelly Olynyk, Lugentz Dort, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, RJ Barrett, Dwight Powell and Melvin Ejim are the eight Olympians who were on the World Cup roster a year ago when Canada won a wild bronze-medal game over the U.S. 127-118 in overtime. It was Canada’s most significant international medal since winning silver at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
The four players on the Olympic team that weren’t part of the World Cup: Jamal Murray, Khem Birch.
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