Why doesn't Canada have a national professional basketball league? Although we do have the Toronto Raptors (NBA), Montreal Matrix (Premier League) and a few other teams at varying time. However the fact that Canada does not have a professional basketball league is a travesty. Canada has been able to support minor league hockey, the Canadian Football League, national major lacrosse and many individual sports teams. But we have never been able to get a basketball league past the infant stages despite having a sports infrastructure that makes basketball an obvious choice for a sports league.
The fact that the Canadian landscape is dominated by minor hockey teams with arenas should be reminicent of how the NBA got it's start playing second fiddle in NHL venues, but professional basketball has just failed to find a solid foothold.
Now there are minor pro teams in Halifax, Montreal, Quebec City, and Winnipeg. Why can we not have a national league?
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