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Left the Premier Basketball League following the 2010–11 season. Filed for bankruptcy after the 2014–15 season in part of the 2015 NBL Canada Finals brawl: Montreal Jazz: Montreal, Quebec 2012–2013 0 Mississauga Power: Mississauga, Ontario 2011–2015 0 Displaced by the Raptors 905 of the NBA G League. Moncton Miracles: Moncton, New Brunswick
The following list contains all urban areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the Big Four leagues (B4) (NFL, [2] MLB, [3] NBA, [4] and NHL [5]) and the Big Six leagues (B6) (aforementioned leagues plus MLS [6] and CFL) [7] are included in the table below.
Canadian teams compete in top-level American and Canadian-based leagues, including three of the four major professional sports leagues. Canada also has minor league teams competing in American and Canadian-based basketball, hockey, soccer, and baseball leagues.
All-NBA Team. Steve Nash, First Team 3 times (2005–2007), Second Team 2 times (2008, 2010), Third Team 2 times (2002–2003) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, First Team 2 times, (2023–2024) First overall draft pick. Anthony Bennett (Cleveland Cavaliers, UNLV, 2013) Andrew Wiggins (Cleveland Cavaliers, Kansas, 2014) Rookie of the Year Award
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
NBL Canada presently operate 10 franchises throughout Canada. The league was the first fully domestic professional basketball league to operate in Canada since the National Basketball League, which operated from 1993 to 1994. The Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) is a professional tier 1 basketball league which began play in 2019 season.
Professional women's hockey has seen starts and stops. The Canadian Women's Hockey League did not pay salaries, but it did pay stipends and bonuses. [1] It folded in 2019. In 2020, the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), the first women's league to pay salaries, expanded into Canada [2] —the Toronto Six were joined in 2022 by the Montreal Force as Canadian franchises.
In doing so, the Raptors became the first team based outside the United States to win the NBA title (and the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy) and the first team based outside the United States to win a championship in any of the four major North American sports leagues since the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series in 1993, ending a 25-year ...