Edmonton Stingers basketball team set to make Champions League Americas debut
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The Edmonton Stingers flew to Nicaragua on Friday with one major goal in mind -- to prove Canadian pro basketball is as good as any league in the Americas not named NBA.
The Edmonton Stingers flew to Nicaragua on Friday with one major goal in mind — to prove Canadian pro basketball is as good as any league in the Americas not named NBA.
The Stingers open the FIBA Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) tournament on Monday against Real Esteli, earning the spot after winning the Canadian Elite Basketball League title last summer.
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“It’s (only) the fourth season the CEBL has been running, and being able to put a team into the Champions League, and be a part of it means a lot,” said guard Adika Peter-McNeilly, a 28-year-old from Toronto.
“We have some great basketball players in Canada and so it’s putting our league on the worldwide map, we’re building something here that’s creating recognition of it.”
The team is actually a collaborative CEBL effort. Stingers head coach Jermaine Small, who’s compiled a 32-4 record in two-and-a-half seasons with Edmonton and led the Stingers to back-to-back CEBL titles, added a couple of CEBL rival coaches to his staff: Charles Dube-Brais, head coach for the Ottawa Blackjacks, and Niagara River Lions head coach and GM Vic Raso.
“I’m very excited to be part of it,” Dube-Brais said. “Just to have that opportunity to join forces.
“The CEBL needs all of us to push it forward. And I think that the league putting this together so that we can go and participate in the BCLA, and then to say, ‘Hey, we’re going to take some coaches from the league, and we’re going to combine and join forces to push this thing forward, that’s really exciting.”
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