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 Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

and basketball leagues in Europe, by playing against teams in

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. The most recent champions are the London Lightning who defeated the

KW Titans KW Titans (formally known as Kitchener-Waterloo Titans Basketball Club) are a professional basketball team based in Regional Municipality of Waterloo and competing the National Basketball League of Canada. The team plays its home games at Kitche ...

3–1 in the 2024 BSL finals.

History

On June 18, 2022, the National Basketball League of Canada (NBLC) announced that

President David Magley, a former NBL Commissioner, will work alongside Audley Stephenson, the current NBLC Commissioner in overseeing the growth of both leagues. 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. On April 11, 2023,

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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

, London Lightning and the

Sudbury Five The Sudbury Five are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Sudbury that play in the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada). The team is owned by Sudbury Wolves Sports and plays at the Sudbury Community Arena. History The ...

from the National Basketball League of Canada would be the first three teams to join. .

Teams

2024–25 teams

Announced teams

References

External links

Official website

League statistics and standings
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