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The National Basketball League of Canada (NBLC) is a Canadian minor professional men's basketball league, composed of eight teams: four in the Atlantic Division and four in the Central Division. In the 2015–16 season, it will feature a new team based in St. Catharines, the Niagara River Lions. A vast majority of the NBLC's players have played NCAA basketball in the United States, and many previously competed at the Division I level in college.
The NBLC was founded on May of 2011, when three teams from the Premier Basketball League—the Halifax Rainmen, Saint John Mill Rats, and Quebec Kebs—joined a single league. Its first-ever draft, the 2011 NBL Canada draft, took place on August 1, when it was live streamed from the Rogers Centre in Toronto. The event was seen by over 6,000 visitors in a live webcast. Ever since, it has had eight head coaches that had once played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and eleven players that had that experience in the past. Several more teams joined the NBLC, including the defunct Montreal Jazz, Laval Kebs, and Ottawa SkyHawks and the current clubs. Template:/box-footer
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. Kyle Julius is a retired Canadian professional basketball player and coach who last served as the head coach of the Mississauga Power of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL). He is the first player in NBL Canada history to become a coach in the league as well. Sometimes considered one of the country's most talented basketball minds, Julius teaches players tips and gives advice on NorthPoleHoops.com. Standing 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), he played the guard positions while in his playing career and attended the University of Guelph and Furman University while in college.
As a player, Julius appeared for several professional teams in Europe, including Viola Reggio Calabria and the Roseto Sharks in Italy and Apollon Limassol BC in Cyprus. He retired in 2007, and became a coach because he found himself critiquing his own coaches in college and watching his teammates drill. Julius failed to make it past the first round of the playoffs in his sole season in Mississauga.
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- ... that point guard Omar Strong (pictured) became the Mississauga Power's all-time leader in three-pointers after just one season with the team?
- ... that the Halifax Rainmen forfeited the 2015 NBL Canada Finals because of safety concerns after a brawl?
- ... that Alex Johnson is the only first overall NBLC draft pick to have played NCAA Division I basketball?
- ... that Halifax's Josep Claros was banned for life from the National Basketball League of Canada shortly after being its Coach of the Year?
- ... that coach Micheal Ray Richardson led the London Lightning to win the National Basketball League of Canada's first two championships?
- ... that NBL Canada Rookie of the Year Rashad Whack appeared in the film Rebound with his godfather, actor Martin Lawrence?
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