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Ottawa appears to be on its way back into the pro basketball game as early as this winter.

Former Toronto Raptors coach Butch Carter said Thursday he would release the full details about a proposed league on Monday. That’s when a committee of the whole of Waterloo city council will be asked to ratify terms of an agreement for a $100,000 “project loan” to Canadian Basketball League Inc. and/or the K-W Basketball Club Inc. and an advance of $387,020 for rink-board replacement and floor chair capital projects at Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex.

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Media reports in the spring said Carter was trying to establish the CBL with four franchises for its first season: Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton, Scarborough and Ottawa. The former NBA player and coach met last December with basketball supporters in Ottawa and has continued to talk with a group that wants to have its team play 15 home games in the main gymnasium at Carleton University.