Serbian player loses a kidney after getting elbowed at FIBA World Cup
The Serbian Basketball Federation announced Monday that forward Borisa Simanic has lost one of his kidneys as the result of an injury sustained during a World Cup game against South Sudan.
They did it.
You knew they could do it. The Canadian men’s national team has been the best team in the Americas (non-USA division) for a decade now. It’s just facts.
The Canadians blew away the field at the Tournament of the Americans in 2015 before tripping over Venezuela with an Olympic berth on the line. They pushed a very talented French team to the limit at the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Manila the following summer. Their cumulative record in World Cup qualifying windows dating back to 2018 is 21-3. In Victoria they lost to a Thomas Satoransky buzzer-beating, leaning, bank shot with an opportunity to go to the 2020 Olympics.
But the bittersweet truths of sports is that until you get the job done in the moment, when required, everything else doesn’t matter.
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