The team will move from Canton to Cleveland ahead of the upcoming season.
CLEVELAND – EDITORS NOTE: The video in the player above is from an earlier, unrelated story.
The Canton Charge says it will keep its name when it moves to Cleveland this fall.
The Cavaliers NBA G League team announced on Wednesday. It will also keep the wine and gold colors it shares with the Cavs and the logo, swapping out “Canton” for “Cleveland” of course.
“The Charge name and brand have served us so well over the past 10 successful years that it only made sense to keep the name as we begin a new chapter in Cleveland,” said Mike Ostrowski, president of Franchise Operations. “The batch compliments the Cavaliers, and that relationship just got stronger now that the team is so close together.”
The team has announced earlier this year that it would leave Canton in exchange for new digs at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center. The Charge chose not to renew their lease at the Canton Memorial Civic Center.
The move of the batch to the Wolstein Center ends a 10-year nine-season run in the canton. It was the team’s first home venue after being acquired by the Cavaliers in 2011.
Back in June, Cavs officials said the batch’s move to Cleveland follows a growing trend in the NBA’s G League, as more than half of the teams are less than 30 miles from their NBA counterparts’ training and development facilities.
The new season of the Cleveland Charge is expected to begin in November 2021.
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