VIDEO: Vancouver Bandits down Winnipeg<\/p>\n
Published 6:09 pm Sunday, August 2, 2026<\/p>\n
It was worth the wait.<\/p>\n
A sold-out crowd for the Vancouver Bandits game against the Winnipeg Sea Bears saw the game delayed from 12:30 p.m. Sunday to 2 p.m. due to unspecified \u201ctravel disruptions\u201d in the league announcement.<\/p>\n
In their last game before the playoffs, Bandits won an 114-90 victory, giving them even more momentum going into Thursday\u2019s Western Conference semifinal game against Edmonton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mitch Creek became the Vancouver Bandits\u2019 all-time leading scorer, finishing the day with 801 CEBL career points.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s semifinal is on home court in Langley, with action starting at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Bandits announced Friday that the club has signed former NBA draft selection and decorated overseas champion Stephen Zimmerman for the remainder of the 2026 Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) season.<\/p>\n
A 7-foot centre hailing from Las Vegas, Nev., Zimmerman was selected 41st overall by the Orlando Magic in the 2016 NBA Draft and appeared in 19 games as a rookie. <\/p>\n
With the signing, Zimmerman becomes the first-ever NBA draft selection to sign with the Bandits.<\/p>\n
\u201cZimmerman brings additional size to our team and experience from the highest levels of the game around the world,\u201d said Bandits general manager Kyle Julius. \u201cHis signing is part of our strategic plan to ensure we have a strong roster to compete in the CEBL playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Vancouver Bandits down Winnipeg Published 6:09 pm Sunday, August 2, 2026 It was worth the wait. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-843699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}