The second season of the Canadian NBL will begin without founding commissioner John Kennedy, who stepped down from the position to attend a family matter. A league spokesman stated that the league will begin looking for a new commissioner.
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Summerside Storm have re-signed forward Chris Cayole.
Hopefully Cayole will be healthy this season. He missed a lot of games due to a very high grade ankle sprain. It is nice to know that the team has given Cayole another chance. For one, Summerside storm have missed his markmanship from long range.Sacramento Kings
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An expansion based on Kitchener is being discussed as probable.
National Basketball League proposes Kitchener franchiseSacramento Kings
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A businessman by the name of Rob Vendetti is willing to finance a Kitchener franchise.
Local business owner hopes to finance Kitchener professional basketball teamSacramento Kings
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Deadline nears for NBL expansion
With an important deadline just two weeks off, it appears any new entries in the National Basketball League of Canada fold for the 2012-13 campaign will come from Ontario.
The NBL, which played its inaugural season with seven teams, has set May 31 as the deadline for prospective ownership groups to formally apply for membership for the upcoming year.
Groups in six Ontario cities — St. Catharines, Kingston, Mississauga, Ottawa, Windsor and Kitchener — are the only ones that “have expressed interest and ... are actively pursuing (membership),” NBL president and CEO Andre Levingston said Tuesday.
“We’ve got some really good things on the go right now,” Levingston said as he and NBL chief operating officer Ian McCarthy were heading to Ontario for more meetings this week.
“How many teams we’re gonna have, we don’t know, because we still have a lot of due diligence to do on our part.”
Levingston, the owner of the Halifax Rainmen, and McCarthy, the president and general manager of the Saint John Mill Rats, helped create the NBL a year ago after both teams had stints in two U.S.-based loops.
The two founders have been on the go since the season ended in late March, meeting with prospective ownership groups and municipal officials in an effort to expand the league.
But Levingston said there’s no ideal number he’s looking for in terms of new teams.
“I just want a solid ownership group, so if that number is one, it’s one,” he said.
“I don’t wanna put teams in just for the sake of saying we’ve got more teams. We’ve been a part of leagues like that. We just wanna make sure that we get the right individuals to be a part of what we’re doing, which is to grow our league on solid ground.”
The NBL had also kicked the tires in Hamilton and Sydney, among other cities, but Levingston said no ownership groups had come forward in those areas.
Potential ownership groups have to include a refundable deposit of $50,000 — double last year’s required amount — with their application.
Levingston and McCarthy are also trying to help the Quebec Kebs find a new home. The Kebs, the third original NBL franchise, had to vacate their tiny venue at Laval University and haven’t been able to reach an agreement with the city on another location.
The Kebs are now in discussions with another facility within the province, Levingston said, and there are no plans to relocate the franchise to one of the Ontario cities under consideration for an expansion team.
He said, though, that it appears the club won’t be back in Quebec City.
“The franchise has to have support from the city and if the city is not going to support it, there are other cities that would love to have professional basketball. So it’s their loss.”Sacramento Kings
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The defending NBL champions, London Lightning have released the protected five players for the offseason:
Gabe Freeman
Tim Ellis
Eddie Smith
DeAnthony Bowden
Shamari Spears
Other players from the first season are free to negotiate contracts with other teams.Sacramento Kings
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NBL Canada approves expansion to Windsor, Ontario.
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Quebec Kebs relocate to Laval - just outside Montreal.
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NBL has a forum:
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