The Cape Breton Highlanders were a Canadian professional basketball team based in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

[2] By August, the team had expectations of playing their home games at Centre 200 and hoped to compete in the 2015–16 NBL Canada season.

Commissioner Dave Magley expected the league's expansion into Sydney to have positive financial ramifications.

[7] Centre 200 was the site of a 2015–16 NBL Canada preseason game between the Halifax Hurricanes and the Island Storm in order to promote the league to the new market.

[8] On August 29, 2016, the Highlanders announced its ownership group and confirmed that the paperwork was being finalized with the league in order to join for the 2016–17 season.

[11] Spon left after one season and was replaced by Bernardo Fitz-Gonzalez, a former Colombia national basketball team player.