HALIFAX RAINMEN CONTINUE PURSUIT OF D-LEAGUE FRANCHISE
Last Updated: June 16, 2008
By basketball.ca staff
HALIFAX - The Halifax Rainmen apparently aren't giving up hope of joining the NBA's D-League next season.
Although the chances of that happening appear slim, Rainmen owner Andre Levingston said Tuesday he's continuing talks with NBA D-League president Dan Reed.
"Negotiations are going well and we continue to work with the NBADL to mitigate issues of concern," Levingston said.
Chief among those concerns is the distance other D-League teams would have to travel to get to Halifax. The closest team to the Nova Scotia capital would be the Erie BayHawks, an expansion franchise which begins play in the northern Pennsylvania city next season.
Levingston and Rainmen co-owner David Dobbin will fly to New York City next Tuesday for another sitdown with D-League officials. "We are willing to do whatever it takes to become a D-League team and we will continue to negotiate as long as we have to," said Levingston.
In the meantime Levingston said he's reviewing alternatives for the Halifax Rainmen. "There are options open to us and we are exploring all of them. As soon as we have an answer from the NBA D-League we will be able to announce our plans."
Those other options could include joining the Premier Basketball League, a second-year circuit made up primarily of former American Basketball Association franchises, or the Continental Basketball Association.
The Rainmen quit the notoriously unstable ABA earlier this year.
HALIFAX - The Halifax Rainmen apparently aren't giving up hope of joining the NBA's D-League next season.
Although the chances of that happening appear slim, Rainmen owner Andre Levingston said Tuesday he's continuing talks with NBA D-League president Dan Reed.
"Negotiations are going well and we continue to work with the NBADL to mitigate issues of concern," Levingston said.
Chief among those concerns is the distance other D-League teams would have to travel to get to Halifax. The closest team to the Nova Scotia capital would be the Erie BayHawks, an expansion franchise which begins play in the northern Pennsylvania city next season.
Levingston and Rainmen co-owner David Dobbin will fly to New York City next Tuesday for another sitdown with D-League officials. "We are willing to do whatever it takes to become a D-League team and we will continue to negotiate as long as we have to," said Levingston.
In the meantime Levingston said he's reviewing alternatives for the Halifax Rainmen. "There are options open to us and we are exploring all of them. As soon as we have an answer from the NBA D-League we will be able to announce our plans."
Those other options could include joining the Premier Basketball League, a second-year circuit made up primarily of former American Basketball Association franchises, or the Continental Basketball Association.
The Rainmen quit the notoriously unstable ABA earlier this year.
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