Season pass now on sale for Honey Badgers

There will be five price tiers of season tickets to see the Hamilton Honey Badgers, the city’s entry in the Canadian Elite Basketball League, which will debut next spring.

Season’s tickets for all six teams in the new spring/summer pro basketball league went on sale Wednesday morning.

The Honey Badgers will play their 10 home games at First Ontario Centre, and only the lower bowl will be used.

The top seats are on the Celebrity level, located on the arena floor at courtside between the players’ benches. A season’s ticket there costs $765.

Courtside Floors, on the opposite side of the court from the Celebrity seats go for $620.

Platinum seats, which are located in the lower rows of the lower bowl, running the length of the court, cost $265 for the 10 games, while Golds, directly above them, are priced at $240.

Silver seats are located from the baselines through the west end of the lower bowl, and are priced at $160.

To view a seating map, or to order tickets, go to honeybadgers.ca.

The CEBL, which also has teams in Guelph, St. Catharines, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Abbotsford, B.C., begins play in May 2019. According to organizers, who include CEO Mike Morreale, the former Hamilton Tiger-Cat, 60 to 70 per cent of the players will be Canadian.