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The Brampton Honey Badgers are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Brampton, Ontario, that competes in the Canadian Elite Basketball League. They play their games at the CAA Centre. The team was founded in 2018 as the Hamilton Honey Badgers and played at the FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario from their inaugural season in 2019 until 2022.
History
On May 2, 2018, the Canadian Elite Basketball League announced Hamilton, Ontario, as one of the original six teams for its inaugural season beginning May 2019. On June 12, 2018, at a press conference the CEBL announced the logo and name of its Hamilton franchise as the Hamilton Honey Badgers, a nickname inspired by the world's most fearless animal. The team also announced the hiring of former Toronto Raptors' executive John Lashway as team president. On December 19, 2019, the organization appointed Jermaine Anderson as the new general manager of the team.
The Honey Badgers won their first game, at home over Edmonton, 103–86 on May 12, 2019.
The Honey Badgers made the playoffs and defeated the Niagara River Lions but lost in the CEBL Finals to the Saskatchewan Rattlers.
The Honey Badgers won their first title on August 14, 2022, against the Scarborough Shooting Stars, 90–88, clinching a berth, at the 2022–23 BCL Americas.
On November 28, 2022, the league announced due to renovations to the FirstOntario Centre, the Honey Badgers had relocated to Brampton permanently.
Honey Badgers mali v CEBL úspešnú úvodnú sezónu, keď skončili na druhom mieste v základnej časti so ziskom 15-5. V semifinále play-off porazili tímy Saskatchewan Rattlers a Edmonton Stingers, ale vo finále prehrali s tímom Guelph Nighthawks. Honey Badgers sa vrátili do finále CEBL v roku 2019, kde opäť podľahli tímu Rattlers. V roku 2020 sa CEBL sezóna nekonala kvôli pandémii COVID-19, ale Honey Badgers sa vrátili v roku 2021 a skončili na 3. mieste v základnej časti s výsledkom 9-5. V roku 2022 Honey Badgers získali svoj prvý titul CEBL, keď vo finále porazili tím Scarborough Shooting Stars.
Medzi známych hráčov, ktorí hrali za Hamilton Honey Badgers, patria:
* Aaron Best (bývalý hráč NBA)
* Ryan Wright (bývalý hráč NBA)
* Justin Hamilton (bývalý hráč NBA)
* Anthony Bennett (bývalý 1. celkový výber draftu NBA)
* Andrew Nicholson (bývalý hráč NBA)