WINNIPEG – A long-serving NBA big man is going to make Winnipeg his home this summer. The Winnipeg Sea Bears are excited to announce the signing of seven-foot centre and former first-round NBA draft pick, Byron Mullens ahead of the 2024 Canadian Elite Basketball League season. “I’m looking forward to playing in front of the great Winnipeg fans I’ve heard so much about. We’re going to do everything we can to bring a championship to the city,” said Mullens. Mullens spent five seasons in the NBA after being selected 24th overall by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2009 NBA Draft. Traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder on draft day, Mullens went on to play 189 games in the NBA with the Thunder, Charlotte Bobcats, Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers. 

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Sea Bears of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) announced Wednesday that tickets for the team’s first home game May 24 against the defending league-champion Scarborough Shooting Stars have sold out. The demand comes in the wake of a five-sellout 2023 season that saw the Sea Bears reset the CEBL’s single-game attendance record on three separate occasions. An all-time league high of 10,580 fans filled Canada Life Centre for the team’s Aug. 4 play-in matchup with the Edmonton Stingers, the final contest of the Winnipeg’s inaugural season. “We are honoured to see the early excitement for the return of Sea Bears basketball to Canada Life Centre,” said team president Jason Smith. “We hope to continue packing our home venue full of energetic fans as more teams visit Winnipeg from across Canada this summer. We already knew that Sea Bears fans are the best in the nation, and we've worked hard to plan a season-long lineup of entertainment for them. We hope that fans will join us at one of the nine remaining regular-season home games this summer.” Tickets are still available for the Sea Bears’ following home game, a June 1 matchup with the visiting Ottawa BlackJacks. For tickets, visit seabears.ca . The Sea Bears are also gearing up for a series of community celebration games, starting June 19 when the team celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day, continuing with Pride Night June 22 and wrapping up June 27 when the organization celebrates Filipino Heritage Month. The team opens training camp Monday, May 13 at Sport Manitoba in Winnipeg before heading to Saskatchewan to take on the Rattlers May 22. ###

Historic Manitoba basketball court faces retirement after hosting the province's and world's best players on its surface over 60 years.

WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Sea Bears and 680 CJOB, Winnipeg’s news and information leader, announced Thursday a partnership that sees the popular Winnipeg radio station broadcast select Sea Bears games in 2024, starting with the team’s season opener in Saskatoon on May 22. 680 CJOB will live broadcast six Sea Bears games on the 2024 slate, including four home and two away match-ups. The full schedule can be found below.

WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Sea Bears have bolstered their frontcourt with the signing of an NBA G League all-star. The Sea Bears are pleased to announce the signing of Darius Days, a 6-foot-7 forward who recently completed his second season with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the G League. Days, who played four games with the NBA’s Houston Rockets in 2022-23, averaged 16.0 points and 6.9 rebounds across 45 regular season and Showcase games with the Vipers in 2023-24. In March, Days was named the G League Player of the Month after he averaged 25.7 points, 9.9 rebounds, 1.5 assists and one steal as the Vipers went 8-2 in that span. In 2022-23, he was named second-team all-NBA G League and first-team all-rookie after he burst into the pro game averaging 21.9 points and 9.2 rebounds, while shooting 35.9 per cent from three in 47 games with the Vipers.