President’s Message 2024-2025 Season 

Firstly, a big thank you to our former league president, Rod Budgell. After ten years, Rod has decided to pass the torch. Rod, on behalf of all former and current players, thank you for your time and energy to keep the Metro Basketball League up and running.

The Metro Basketball League would also like to thank our six team sponsors - Apotex, Keyin College, Fougere Menchenton Architects, Benchmark Construction, Martini Bar, and DF Barnes. Their support is essential to the league’s continued success.

The goal of the MBL is to allow 35+ year-old basketball players to play a sport they love without having to compete against much younger players in the SJABA. Despite being a league with older players, the league remains competitive at a reasonably high level. Most players have previously played D1, D2, and/or D3 in SJABA with some metro players still competing in both leagues.

The MBL has a Draft Night at the beginning of each season where the six team representatives select team rosters from the list of eligible league players. At the end of the draft process, the team reps can take a few extra minutes to suggest potential trades before the rosters are finalized. Draft night adds a bit of fun and entertainment as players find out which team they’ll be playing with for that season. (Draught Night also occurs each Thursday night at Gov’nors Pub.)

If any 35+ basketball players are interested in finding out more information about the Metro Basketball League you can visit our Facebook page or contact our league convenor Bruce Helm at bruce0512@hotmail.ca.

Mark Dawson
President Metro Basketball League