Basketball Super League (North America)

Basketball Super League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024–25 Basketball Super League season
SportBasketball
Founded2023
PresidentDave Magley
CommissionerDevin Kinsella
No. of teams9
CountriesCanada
United States
ContinentsNorth America
Most recent
champion(s)		London Lightning (1st title)
Most titlesLondon Lightning (1)

The Basketball Super League is a professional basketball league based throughout Canada and the United States. The goal is to model the league after professional soccer and basketball leagues in Europe, by playing against teams in The Basketball League.[1][2] The most recent champions are the London Lightning who defeated the KW Titans 3–1 in the 2024 BSL finals.

History

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On June 18, 2022, the National Basketball League of Canada (NBLC) announced that The Basketball League President David Magley, a former NBL Commissioner, will work alongside Audley Stephenson, the current NBLC Commissioner in overseeing the growth of both leagues.[3]

For the 2021–22 season, the NBLC announced that they had agreed to inter-league series play with several teams from The Basketball League. The games played between the teams from the two leagues are included in their respective regular season standings for each league.[4]

On April 11, 2023, Dave Magley and announced the formation a new professional basketball league called the Basketball Super League is to begin on December 26, 2023. The league will consist of teams located in Canada and the United States. The KW Titans, London Lightning and the Sudbury Five from the National Basketball League of Canada would be the first three teams to join. .[5]

Teams

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Canada based BSL teams as of the 2024-25 season
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US-based teams in the BSL as of the 2024-25 season. Dot colors correspond to the divisional alignment.


2024–25 teams

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Team City Arena Capacity Founded Joined Head coach
Glass City Wranglers Toledo, Ohio 2021 2024 Freddie Zamora
Jamestown Jackals Jamestown, New York Jamestown Community College 1,400 2015 2024 Raheem Singleton
KW Titans Kitchener, Ontario Kitchener Memorial Auditorium 7,312 2016 2023 Cliff Clinkscales
London Lightning London, Ontario Canada Life Place 9,046 2011 2023 Jerry Williams
Newfoundland Rogues St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Mary Brown's Centre 6,750 2022 2023 Reece Gaines
Pontiac Pharaohs Pontiac, Michigan Pontiac High School 2021 2024 Scott Newman
Sudbury Five Greater Sudbury, Ontario Sudbury Community Arena 4,640[6] 2017 2023[7] Logan Stutz
Windsor Express Windsor, Ontario WFCU Centre 7,000 2012 2023 Bill Jones
On hiatus
Montreal Tundra Montreal, Quebec Centre Pierre Charbonneau 2,700 2022 2023 Damian Buckley

References

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  1. ^ "New Basketball Super League branded as best on continent outside NBA". 11 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Professional basketball players have yet another career option to consider when the BSL launches across Canada and the United States next year". The Basketball League. 13 April 2023.
  3. ^ "NBL Canada Expands Partnership With TBL, Eyes Expansion In Near Future". nblcanada.ca/ (Press release). National Basketball League of Canada. June 18, 2022. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
  4. ^ "NBL Canada Returns to Celebrate 10th Season with Inter-League Play". OurSports Central. November 4, 2021.
  5. ^ "NBL Canada Teams To Join Basketball Super League". nblcanada.ca/ (Press release). National Basketball League of Canada. May 11, 2023. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
  6. ^ nurun.com. "Welcome to The Five". Sudbury Star. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  7. ^ "Sudbury Expansion team to start fall of 2018". NBLC. August 1, 2017. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
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