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Mike Cvitkovic’s basketball team finally has a player under contract, and more will sign on the dotted lines in the weeks to come.

That, however, is only part of the process in getting the Ottawa BlackJacks of the Canadian Elite Basketball League ready for tipoff for the first regular-season game on May 7.

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Another item on his agenda Monday, for example, involved speaking with a candidate for the position of home-court DJ.

Really.

Plus there are many, many, many more tickets to be sold, although Cvitkovic said Monday he was pleased with progress on that front.

The BlackJacks are No. 1 among the CEBL’s seven teams in both season-tickets and revenue for ticket sales, he said, although it’s important to keep in mind that he’s talking about roughly 600 season tickets so far and a total goal of 900.

“Our target (total attendance) is just under three thousand,” said Cvitkovic, whose squad will play home games in the arena at TD Place. “That’s our selling target. That’s not including comps or any other corporate sales.”

Group and flex-ticket packages are to go on sale March 3, with single-game tickets available at prices of $25 and up starting on March 31, Cvitkovic said at a media session introducing Ottawa’s Jean Emmanuel Pierre-Charles as the BlackJacks’ first signed player.

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