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After being swept by the St. John's Edge, will the Express run in Windsor again?

Team’s president says he doesn’t know what future holds for NBL Canada franchise

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The Windsor Express might not have only been swept out of the National Basketball League of Canada playoffs Wednesday night by the St. John’s Edge.
According to a published report Thursday, their loss in Game 3 of the Central Division semifinal might have represented the first step in Windsor’s exit from the league.
The Express, who entered the league in 2012 and won NBLC championships in 2014 and 2015, drew approximately 900 fans for Wednesday’s 124-117 loss to the Edge. That’s just about the same as team’s average for its 20-game regular-season schedule at Windsor WFCU Centre (878).
To put it in perspective, that’s just about a quarter of the 3,464 the league’s website lists as the average number of fans the Edge brought in at Mile One Centre during their inaugural season.
After Wednesday’s game, Express president and CEO Dartis Willis told Jim Parker of the Windsor Star he didn’t know if the franchise would be operating in Windsor next season.
“We don’t know,” said Willis. “You go home, you relax and you do nothing. You wait and determine if you’re going to play here or somewhere else.
“It’s a lot of decisions to be made in the offseason.”
The Express had taken the Edge to double overtime before losing Game 1 at Mile One Centre last Friday, but lost by larger margins in the next two games of the best-of-five series.

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