BlackJacks Add CEBL Champion Djogo
The 6-foot-8 native of Hamilton, Ont. won a CEBL championship in his lone season of league play thus far helping the Hamilton Honey Badgers to the 2022 title
The Ottawa BlackJacks of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL), Canada’s largest professional sports league, announced today that the team has signed guard Nikola Djogo for the 2025 season.
The 6-foot-8 native of Hamilton, Ont. won a CEBL championship in his lone season of league play thus far helping the Hamilton Honey Badgers to the 2022 title along with fellow 2025 BlackJacks signing, Zane Waterman.
“Nikola is a high-character professional who has been an impactful player at each stop in his basketball career,” said BlackJacks general manager James Derouin. “As a Canadian wing with NCAA Division I, international and CEBL experience, Nikola is another versatile player who we expect to help improve the roster we are building. His role on a championship team in 2022 showed the contributions he can make towards winning in this league and we’ve been impressed with how he’s continued to improve his game since then. We are excited to add another Canadian talent to our roster and look forward to welcoming Nikola to the Nation’s Capital this summer.”
Djogo began playing professionally following a distinguished NCAA career, the majority of which was spent at the University of Notre Dame (ACC) where his Fighting Irish run was highlighted by becoming the first Canadian-born player in program history to start a game at Notre Dame when he entered the starting five on 1/27/18 vs. Virginia Tech.
He was recognized as Notre Dame Team Captain for the 2020-21 season while earning the 2020 Team Irish Award and making the ACC Academic Honour Roll in four of his five years with the club before transferring to Northeastern University (CAA) for his graduate year. The 2021-22 campaign saw him start 27 of the 28 games in which he appeared and sit in the top 25 among all conference student-athletes in points per-game (11.5), rebounds per-game (5.6) and steals per-game (1.0).
Following his NCAA career, the graduate of Athlete Institute Prep in Mono, Ont. has suited up for KK Split (A-1 Liga) in Croatia and Egis Kormend (NBIA) in Hungary prior to the 2024-25 season which has seen him play in 15 total regular season contests for Basic-Fit Brussels (BNXT). His 11.6 points per-game, 4.8 rebounds per-game and 24.7 minutes per-game all sit in the top three on his team.
Djogo represented Canada at the 2014 U17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates where he was a teammate of current Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray and former Carleton University forward Eddie Ekiyor along with current and former CEBL athletes in Koby McEwen, Marcus Ottey and Kalif Young.
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The first expansion franchise of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL), the Ottawa BlackJacks showcase the best of basketball and entertainment in the nation’s capital. The Ottawa front office brings NBA, NBA G League, national team, NCAA and major international pro league experience to the franchise. Led by General Manager James Derouin and Head Coach Dave DeAveiro, Ottawa plays its home games out of the world-class Arena at TD Place in Lansdowne Park. For more information, visit
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