When we talk about Canadian basketball being on the rise, we aren’t just talking about the NBA (although yes, we mean that too).
But even at the youth levels, you have young players coming up faster than ever before. Today’s highlight comes from Toronto’s Toby Fournier — she’s just 14 years old and already throwing down dunks.
The basketball pipeline in Canada is as strong as ever, with players such as R.J. Barrett, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Kia Nurse taking the pros by storm in recent years, and it seems like a good bet to continue growing forward.
Young Canadian players such as Laeticia Amihere, Aaliyah Edwards and Latasha Lattimore have all made waves as top recruits in college women's basketball over the next few years — and oh, they have big hops too. Here's Amihere, who is about to begin her freshman year at South Carolina, throwing it down.
