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NBA Players to Suit Up for Team Bahamas

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The Bahamas Basketball Federation announced what may be the best national team roster in our nation’s history.

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1 year ago

July 31, 2023

Taige Adderley

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The Bahamas Basketball Federation announced what may be the best national team roster in our nation’s history.

Three NBA players will join a bevy of overseas pros and college stars to represent the aqua, black and gold.

Team Bahamas will make the strongest push it’s ever made for a spot in the 2024 Olympics.

The Bahamas Basketball Federation announced that NBA players Deandre Ayton, Buddy Hield and Kai Jones will join a Bahamas team that already has seasoned overseas professionals in Kino Burrows, Dominic Bridgewater and Danrad Knowles, Division 1 talent in Sammy Hunter and Franco Miller and a number of other national team veterans like Kadeem Coleby and Mychel Thompson.

The team will play in the 2023 FIBA olympic pre-qualifier in a few weeks in Argentina.

Peace on the Streets Basketball Tournament

The annual Peace on the Streets basketball tournament ended last night in grand style with the pastors versus politicians game – a game that lived up to the hype and did not disappoint.

32-29 was the final overtime score as the pastors pulled out a second straight victory over the politicians. The game stayed close from the start with the politicians entering the half with a 15-14 lead. At the end of the fourth it would be Central and South Eleuthera Clay Sweeting hitting a jumper that leveled the game at 26 all at the end of regulation. Once overtime began the pastors were simply too much to handle with Dr. Carlos Reid hitting two back-to-back three pointers which sealed the win. The final score 32-29. Dr. Carlos Reid was the top scorer with 13 points.

And he spoke about those two final 3-pointers that he hit to seal the win.

Prime Minister Philip Davis served as the head coach for the politicians.

Swimming

Izaak Bastian can call himself many things, an olympian, a national champ, a collegiate all-American. Now, he’s putting that aside so that he can be called something else: doctor.

Izaak Bastian announced over the weekend that he is retiring from a decorated swimming career at the age of 22 to pursue a doctorate in physiotherapy at Florida Gulf Coast University.

A former olympian, having competed in the 2020 olympics in Tokyo, Bastian was an all-American at Florida State where he set program records in the 100m and 200m breaststroke before he even turned 20, he was also a model student and citizen.

He was also a national record holder in the 200m breaststroke and became the first Bahamian to break the one-minute mark in the 100m breast.

He was also a multiple-time national record holder and CARIFTA champ.