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    Every record broken on the court at the World Cup

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    MIES (Switzerland) - Broken records. That will be an enduring theme of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. Players, teams, and fans set a new standard of excellence at the sport's largest and most competitive national team tournament with several eye-popping marks. Here are the numbers from Manila, Okinawa, and Jakarta that fans will still talk about for years to come.

    17

    That's how many assists Arturs Zagars dished out for Latvia in their last game of the tournament, the Fifth-Place game against Lithuania on  September 9. Zagars passed the legendary Toni Kukoc, who had 15 assists when Croatia defeated China, 105-73, at the 1994 World Cup in Toronto, and Carlik Jones, who had 15 just seven days earlier for South Sudan in their 101-78 victory over Angola. (The 1994 World Cup was the first edition in which complete statistics have been recorded and maintained)

    25

    The number of consecutive World Cup games in which Serbia's Bogdan Bogdanovic has made at least one three-pointer. That's also how many World Cup games Bogdanovic has played! The streak began at the 2014 World Cup in Spain when he buried a three-ball against Egypt and he's continued to make it rain since.

    44

    Canada records Legend

    The number of assists accumulated by Canada in a 128-73 win over Lebanon on August 27, including a game-high eight by Trae Bell-Haynes. The team from the Land of the Maple Leaf had equaled the previous high of 37 in a win over Jordan at the 2019 event in China. At that same World Cup, Serbia had also recorded 37 against the Philippines.

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