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It is probably fitting Mike Morreale has been bouncing around the country promoting the upstart Canadian Elite Basketball League.

The commissioner and CEO of the six-team professional league has been making the rounds and was in town Friday to take in the game between the Edmonton Stingers and Guelph Nighthawks at the Edmonton Expo Centre.

Morreale caught an exciting game as the Stingers pulled out an 82-80 win over the Nighthawks, but more importantly, the former CFLer was happy with the progress weeks into the launch of the league.

“I look at it in a bunch of different ways,” Morreale said. “The basketball has been tremendous, probably better than I anticipated in terms of the high scores and the guys enjoying what they’re doing — and it’s only going to get better because there are more talented guys coming in over the next week.”

Apart from the franchise in Edmonton, the CEBL has teams in Abbotsford, B.C., Saskatoon, Niagara, Hamilton, and Guelph.