{"id":859822,"date":"2026-08-16T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859822\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:20:10","slug":"sea-bears-beat-honey-badgers-98-84-to-claim-first-cebl-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859822\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Bears beat Honey Badgers 98-84 to claim first CEBL championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786857610_729_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brampton Honey Badgers&#8217; Roddy Peters (2) defends against Winnipeg Sea Bears&#8217; Xavier Moon (17) during first half CEBL championship action in Winnipeg on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/John Woods<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 15, 2026 | 5:18 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 The Winnipeg Sea Bears are Canadian Elite Basketball League champions for the first time in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing without injured star forward Teddy Allen, the Manitoba crew defeated the visiting Brampton Honey Badgers 98-84 on Saturday at Canada Life Centre to claim the 2026 title.<\/p>\n<p>The CEBL championship was intended to be a three-game series concluding Sunday, but Wednesday\u2019s first game at Brampton\u2019s CAA Centre was suspended early due to condensation on the court, and then cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The league then said a three-game final couldn\u2019t be completed within the scheduled window, and after consulting with both clubs, opted to return to a single game used from 2019 to 2025 to determine the champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brampton Honey Badgers&#8217; Roddy Peters (2) defends against Winnipeg Sea Bears&#8217; Xavier Moon (17) during first half CEBL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-859822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859822","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=859822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}