Representatives of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBLC)touched down in Kitchener Ontario to look at possibilities of bring semi-pro basketball to the city.

Mayor Carl Zehr met with NBL president and chief executive officer Andre Levingston to hear his proposal as to why Kitchener should be the next city to join the league.

“We just wanted to see if the mayor would embrace the opportunity of professional basketball being played in Kitchener, and he seemed pretty enthusiastic about it,” Levingston said.

“Naturally there is a lot of due diligence to be done on everyone’s side, but we had a good initial meeting