Two 2022 Alliance players, co-captain and first player in franchise history Kemy Ossé and Alain Louis, will compete in the Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) with the defending Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) champions, the Brampton Honey Badgers. 

Founded in 2019, the BCLA is the first-ever Pan American competition and replaced the FIBA Americas League as the continent’s highest tier league in the continent. The competition pits the best basketball teams in the Americas against each other, such as the three best teams of the Liga Nacional de Básquet (Argentina – Quimsa, Instituto ACC, Obras), the three best teams of the Novo Basquete Brasil (Brazil – Minas Tênis Clube, Flamengo, Franca), the CEBL champions (Canada – Brampton Honey Badgers), the champion of the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol de Chile (Chile – C.D. Universidad de Concepción), the champion of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (Mexico – Libertadores de Querétaro), the champion of the Liga Superior de Baloncesto (Nicaragua – Real Estelí) as well as the two best teams of the Liga Uruguaya de Basketball (Uruguay - Biguá de Villa Biarritz, Peñarol).

The 12 teams in the competition are divided into four groups and play each other team three times. The top two teams in each group advance to the quarterfinals. The winner of the competition advances to the Intercontinental Basketball Cup, which pits the BCLA champion against the champions of the NBA G League (USA), the Basketball Champions League (Europe), the Basketball Africa League and the FIBA Asia Champions Cup. 

Ossé and Louis join the Honey Badgers for their final two games of the competition as the CEBL champs are currently winless in four games. For its final two games, Brampton features an all-Canadian roster with 10 of its 11 players having played in the CEBL in 2022: Sean Miller-Moore (Guelph), Kemy Ossé and Alain Louis (Montréal), Daniel Walden-Mullings and Jaylen Babb-Harrison (Niagara), Chad Posthumus (Ottawa), Shane Osayande (Saskatchewan), Jahvon Blair (Newfoundland) as well as Alex Campbell and Murphy Burnatowski (Vancouver). The 11th player on the roster, Elijah Lufile, played for the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League earlier this season. 

In 2022, Ossé averaged 10.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game and scored 10 or more points eight times. Louis average 6.3 points, 2.0 rebounds and 3.2 assists. 

The Brampton Honey Badgers will host Real Estelí (Nicaragua) on Tuesday, February 7 at 8:00 PM and Libertadores (Mexico) on Thursday, February 9 at 8:00 PM with all games being played at Brampton’s CAA Center. All Honey Badgers games will be broadcast live on CEBL+ and NBA TV Canada. 

About the Montréal Alliance

The Montréal Alliance is a professional basketball team competing in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). The team is entering its second season in the CEBL and plays all its home games at the Verdun Auditorium. The CEBL season runs from May to August and is comprised of 10 home games and 10 away games. Get your tickets and find more information about the team at www.alliancemontreal.ca and on our social media platforms, on Instagram and Tik Tok (@alliancemontreal), Twitter (@mtl_alliance), LinkedIn and Facebook (Montréal Alliance). 

About the CEBL

A league created by Canadians for Canadians with a mission to develop Canadian players, coaches, sports executives, and referees, the CEBL boasts the highest percentage of Canadian players of any pro league in the country with 71 percent of its 2022 rosters being Canadian. Players bring experience from the NBA, NBA G League, top international pro leagues, the Canadian National team program, and top NCAA programs as well as U SPORTS. Nine players have moved from the CEBL into the NBA following a CEBL season, and 28 CEBL players attended NBA G League training camps during October. The CEBL season runs from May through August. More information about the CEBL is available at CEBL.ca and @cebleague on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook & YouTube.