Bringing back NBL games to Canberra Corey Webster of the Breakers looks to pass the ball during game two of the NBL Semi Final series between the New Zealand Breakers and the Perth Wildcats. RESURRECTING the Canberra Cannons remains a long-shot, but a revamped National Basketball League is exploring the possibility of bringing games back to the national capital. Interim NBL chief executive Scott Dunn, who is also one of the owners of the Sydney Kings, wants to see Canberra host a regular-season game as early as the 2014-15 season. "One of the objectives we'd love to get is to get some games into Canberra, that'd be a starting point we'd be looking at," Dunn said. I've mooted the idea the last couple of years, especially with availability of venues and back-to-back games. We need to take the product on the road and get it out there. The NBL is in the process of demerging from Basketball Australia and has put expansion back on the agenda. Bringing a Brisbane team back into the competition was the first priority to ensure there was a presence in south-east Queensland for a new broadcast deal. Dunn said he hadn't received any proposals for a Canberra team and believed the arrangement the AFL has with Greater Western Sydney could be applied to the NBL. The Giants have signed a 10-year partnership with the ACT government, which involves playing three premiership games a year at Manuka Oval and the establishing of a talent academy. The Cannons were one of the most dominant teams in the NBL in the 1980s, winning three championships and regularly playing in front of sold-out crowds at the AIS Arena. But financial issues forced them to fold in 2003, one of a string of teams to collapse. "We're conscious of what's happened in the past with the NBL, it expanded pretty quickly and had lots of teams all over the place and couldn't sustain it," Dunn said.