Halifax and Professional Basketball

professional basketball: Mills was a member of the former Halifax Rainmen advisory board, according to CBC. The company that owned Halifax Rainmen filed for bankruptcy in July, two months after forfeiting a championship game and being fined thousands of dollars by the National Basketball League of Canada. Halifax Professional Basketball Club which will own and operate the franchise was announced Thursday by investors from Halifax business community. "We are excited to see professional basketball return to Halifax and give the city a new team to support and cheer for," said Don Mills of Corporate Research Associates Inc. who has led the effort to resurrect a NBL team. Halifax insurance executive Mike Brien is the interim CEO of the new company and will manage day-to-day operations while former Rainmen owner Andre Levingston has been appointed as the general manager of basketball operations. If that is successful, the team should be able to begin playing by late December 2015. Team could be on court by late December The club still needs to work out an agreement with Trade Centre Limited. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.