{"id":856080,"date":"2026-08-13T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856080\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:02:09","slug":"cebl-moves-to-single-game-championship-after-game-1-cancelled-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856080\/","title":{"rendered":"CEBL moves to single-game championship after Game 1 cancelled | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786590129_616_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Winnipeg Sea Bears player has been released from hospital after the basketball team says it is believed the star scorer was assaulted by security at a nightclub in the city&#8217;s downtown. Official game ball of the CEBL sits courtside ahead of game action in Guelph, Ont., Thursday, May 26, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nick Iwanyshyn<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 12, 2026 | 5:35 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>BRAMPTON \u2014 The Canadian Elite Basketball League is pivoting on its plans for a three-game championship series after the first game was called off due to unsafe playing conditions. <\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Sea Bears and Brampton Honey Badgers opened Game 1 at Brampton\u2019s CAA Centre on Wednesday, but play was suspended early in the first period due to condensation on the court. <\/p>\n<p>The league issued a statement saying it consulted with both teams, game staff officials and venue staff, and decided to cancel the game because the playing surface was unsafe for competition. <\/p>\n<p>Another statement followed, with the league saying the CEBL championship will now be decided in a single game to be held in Winnipeg on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Winnipeg Sea Bears player has been released from hospital after the basketball team says it is believed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-856080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856080","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=856080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}