TORONTO – Capitalizing on Canadians’ surging interest in professional basketball, CBC Sports has announced plans to live-stream the remaining 39 games of the inaugural season of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL).
The CEBL includes six teams – the Fraser Valley Bandits, Edmonton Stingers, Saskatchewan Rattlers, Guelph Nighthawks, Hamilton Honey Badgers, and Niagara River Lions – featuring top Canadian players as well as international talent.
Coverage tips off June 12 at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 PM PT and will stream within Canada at cbcsports.ca, CBC Gem, and via the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices. Coverage will also include the CEBL 2019 Championship Weekend, which runs from August 22-25 in Saskatoon, that will feature the league's top four teams, including host team the Saskatchewan Rattlers, competing to be crowned the first-ever CEBL Champion.
“Canadians are hungry for basketball, and looking ahead to the anticipation for the sport at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, CBC Sports is thrilled to be the destination for national coverage of our homegrown professional league,” said Chris Wilson, interim head of CBC Sports, in the news release. “This is an essential opportunity for fans of the sport from across the country to follow the journeys of the new generation of pro basketball players as they represent our communities and country as whole.”
The full schedule of games that will stream across CBC Sports is available here.
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