Nations Cup basketball tournament 2025: Suriname defeat Guyana to emerge champions

Suriname have emerged champions of the 2025 Nations Cup basketball tournament after a fiery final contested against Guyana at the Ismay van Wilgen Sportshal in Paramaribo, Suriname on Sunday, January 26.
After a rollercoaster opening period, Suriname, with their ability to counter on the weak defenses of Guyana, took a six-point advantage (21-15) in the first part of the first quarter of the game, when they delivered high-energy basketball highlighted by an electrifying baseline dunk from Kimol Grimmond.
However, the Guyana team went toe-to-toe with Suriname in that fiercely competitive period, and the home team narrowly edged out Guyana in that quarter 19-18.
Nevertheless, Suriname maintained a tenacious grip on the game, and headed into halftime with a seven-point lead (40-33); and after a dogged third quarter, they went into the fourth period with a five-point (54-49) lead.
A full-fledged battle for supremacy in the fourth quarter ended with Suriname
recording an 18-point victory over Guyana, the scoreboard reading 79-61.
Kimol Grimmond scored an entertaining 10 points for Suriname in the final. Travis Belgrave, the tournament’s leading scorer, recorded 11 points for Guyana in this game, and ended the competition with 47 points across three games. Harold Adams chipped in with nine, and Zian Gray and Stanton Rose Jr. each contributed eight points for Guyana.
In a must-win previous game, Guyana had managed a 19-7 advantage over Grenada at the end of the first quarter.
Travis Belgrave (13) and Harold Adams (12) combined for 25 points in the first half to help give Guyana a 26-point (44-18) lead at halftime; and Travis Belgrave scored a game-high 20 points, while Captain Stanton A. Rose Jr. had 15 and Harold Adams 14 in Guyana’s 79-50 win over Grenada in Paramaribo.