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Professional basketball has hit Montreal with a bang with fans across the city welcoming their team the Montreal Alliance with fervor. And sold-out crowds at the Verdun Auditorium were well rewarded with victories in their first two home games. On Sunday, May 29, the Alliance staged a comeback against Scarborough’s Shooting Stars with a 80 to 70 win and on Tuesday 31,beating the Ottawa BlackJacks 86-80. Montrealer Moe Khan is the lead announcer and play-by-play man for the games that are being broadcasted on Montreal’s leading English language sports radio station TSN 690 AM. He sits in a privileged position …

Karim Fall (LJI) Joel Anthony has had success at multiple levels in his playing career from college to the NBA. Now he is hoping to recreate some of those accomplishments with the new Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) franchise the Montreal Alliance as their inaugural general manager. His appointment, which was made public at a news conference at Dawson College on December 8, provoked quite a lot of excitement among Montreal’s basketball community, which has produced a lot of successful players at the college level as well as in the NBA. Joel Anthony isn’t new to the CEBL which has …