Scarborough Opens it's CEBL Season May 26 at Brampton

The Scarborough Shooting Stars tip off their second Canadian Elite Basketball League season Friday, May 26 at the CAA Centre in a rematch of last year’s championship final against the relocated Brampton Honey Badgers, the team announced Tuesday. The CEBL has announced a conference model of competition for its fifth season. The league’s 10 teams are divided into an Eastern and Western Conference. The Western Conference includes the Calgary Surge, Edmonton Stingers, Saskatchewan Rattlers, Vancouver Bandits and Winnipeg Sea Bears. The Scarborough Shooting Stars join the Brampton Honey Badgers, Montreal Alliance, Niagara River Lions and Ottawa BlackJacks in the Eastern Conference.

The Shooting Stars begin the season with two road games at Brampton and Ottawa. They host a home opener weekend versus Winnipeg on Friday, June 2 and Saskatchewan on Sunday, June 4 at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. Of the team’s 10 home games, Scarborough hosts four on Friday nights and four on Sunday afternoons in order to bring families high level basketball entertainment over the summer weekends.

The schedule includes three games against each Eastern Conference team with the exception of rival Honey Badgers, who the Shooting Stars will play twice at home and twice on the road. Scarborough has a home-and-home encounter with the Edmonton Stingers and Saskatchewan Rattlers but will only see Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver once during the regular season.

The 2023 Championship Weekend takes place in Vancouver from August 11-12. Host Vancouver, along with the top-ranked team from the Eastern Conference, will automatically be seeded into the semifinals hosted at Championship Weekend.

The CEBL postseason will feature play-in games between the third and fourth-ranked teams in each conference. Winners will advance to the quarterfinals and play the second-best team of their respective conferences. The fifth-ranked team in each conference will be eliminated unless Vancouver places fifth in the west in which case the fourth-ranked west team will get eliminated. Quarterfinal winners in each conference will play their respective conference teams already seeded in the semifinals. The full postseason schedule will be revealed at a later date.

Season Tickets are now on sale by visiting www.scarboroughshootingstars.ca/tickets or sending an email to [email protected] Single game tickets will go on sale in the spring.

The Scarborough Shooting Stars are led by coach Chris Exilus, who guided the team to the CEBL Championship game during their inaugural season. Stand-out guard Jalen Harris signed with the NBA's New York Knicks in September before joining their G League affiliate in Westchester. Kyle Alexander, JV Mukama, Kassius Robertson and Kalif Young all dressed for team Canada last summer helping them qualify for the FIBA World Cup 2023 Americas. Marcus Anderson, Kameron Chatman, Danilo Djuricic, Calvin Epistola, Isaiah Mike, Xavier Rathan-Mayes, Aaryn Rai, Alexander, Robertson and Young all signed contracts with clubs overseas. The Shooting Stars will begin to announce their 2023 roster in the weeks leading up to the start of May 18 training camp.

The CEBL’s schedule of nationally televised games will be announced at a later date. All games including playoffs will be livestreamed and archived on the CEBL’s OTT platform, CEBL+, and on CEBL Mobile, the official app of the CEBL (available on iOS and Android devices).

More information about the Scarborough Shooting Stars is available at scarboroughshootingstars.ca as well as on Instagram (@scarboroughshootingstars), Twitter (@sss_cebl) and Facebook.

About the CEBL

A league created by Canadian for Canadian with a mission to develop Canadian players, coaches, sport executives, and referees, the CEBL boasts the highest percentages of Canadian players of any pro league in the country with 71 percent of its 2022 rosters being Canadian. Players bring experience from the NBA, NBA G League, top international pro leagues, the Canadian National team program, and top NCAA programs as well as U SPORTS. Nine players have moved the the CEBL into the NBA following a CEBL season, and 28 CEBL players attended NBA G League training camps during October. The CEBL season runs from May through August. More information about the CEBL is available at CEBL.ca and @cebleague on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook & YouTube.

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