Follow the bouncing ball, you never know where it will take you.

For Al Whitley, it took him from Vancouver Island to the University of New Brunswick to Dallas, Texas, where he spent 22 years working for the Dallas Mavericks.

And now it will take him to Brampton, where he will begin a new challenge as part-owner and chief executive officer of the Brampton Honey Badgers of the Canadian Elite Basketball League.

“This is incredibly exciting for me,” said Whitley by phone from Dallas, where he has lived since joining the Mavericks in 2001. “I tell people all the time, growing up on Vancouver Island, if I thought I ever had a chance to run a pro sports franchise and maybe own a little piece of it, I would have thought you were crazy. I just didn’t dream that big as a kid, being an island boy

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