Before a boisterous crowd at the Saville Community Sports Centre, Canada won the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship for Women to qualify for the Rio Olympics.
In 2001, the Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds boys basketball made history, winning its third consecutive 4A provincial high school championship.
At the 2010 Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Team Alberta North men's and women's basketball teams both captured gold.
A CEBL record 12,327 fans turned out at the Scotiabank Saddledome to watch the Calgary Surge host the Edmonton Stingers in the first game of the 2024 season.
The fourth edition of the World Junior Men’s Basketball Championships took place in Edmonton in 1991.
In 1987, Lethbridge hosted the Canada National Junior Championships, which was the country's biggest ever standalone basketball championships at that time.
In 1998, Calgary’s Kelly Boucher played for the Charlotte Monarchs, becoming the first Canadian in WNBA history.
A sellout crowd packed Rogers Place in Edmonton to watch the second ever WNBA Canada Game in 2024, featuring the Seattle Storm and Los Angeles Sparks.
The University of Calgary's women's basketball team set the North American university women’s hoops record with 69 straight wins, a remarkable streak that included a national championship victory.
Edmonton’s Adut Bulgak was selected by the New York Liberty with the 12th overall pick in the 2016 WNBA Draft, becoming the first Albertan drafted in Round 1.