Question: Ife Holmes played for an NBL team that joined the league in what year?

Context articles: National Basketball League of Canada
Halifax Rainmen
Dante Holmes
Jaret Holmes
Gold Coast Blaze
Fort Wayne General Electrics
Women's National Basketball League
NBL Coach of the Year Award
Ife Holmes
Daryl Holmes

The National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada; French: Ligue nationale de basketball du Canada ) is a Canadian professional men's basketball league.
 The NBL was founded in 2011, when three teams formerly of the Premier Basketball League joined with four new franchises to form the NBL's "Original Seven".
 By 2017, the league had grown to nine teams, with five located in the Maritime provinces and four in Ontario.
 The current champions are the London Lightning, having defeated the Halifax Hurricanes 4–3 in the 2017 NBL Finals.
 The league's season begins in November and ends in April of the following year.
The Halifax Rainmen were a professional basketball team based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
 They played in the Atlantic Division of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL) and their home games took place at the Scotiabank Centre, formerly known as the Halifax Metro Centre.
 Andre Levingston was the owner of the Rainmen since he helped establish the team in 2006.
 The team played their first season in the American Basketball Association (ABA).
 However, after becoming unhappy with the ABA, they moved to the Premier Basketball League (PBL) for the next three seasons.
 In 2011, they joined the NBL Canada as one of the original seven teams.
 Despite showing success in the four seasons they spent in the Canadian league, making two Finals appearances, the Rainmen filed for bankruptcy in July 2015.
 The team was coming off a controversial loss in the 2015 NBL Canada Finals against the Windsor Express and forfeited Game 7 after taking part in a pre-game brawl.
 The Halifax Hurricanes, with a larger ownership group than the Rainmen's single owner, replaced the Rainmen in NBL Canada for the 2015–16 season.
Dante Holmes (born September 27, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Glasgow Rocks of the British Basketball League (BBL) in Scotland.
 Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he played high school basketball at Northeast power, St. Frances Academy of The Baltimore Catholic League (BCL) and Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association.
 Holmes played college basketball at North Carolina Central University.
Jaret D. Holmes (born March 3, 1976) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears (1999), the New York Giants (2000) and the Jacksonville Jaguars (2001).
 He played high school football at Clinton High School.
 Holmes played college football at Hinds Community College and Auburn University.
The Gold Coast Blaze was an Australian men's professional basketball team which competed in the National Basketball League (NBL).
 The Blaze competed in their inaugural season in 2007/08.
 The club was based on the Gold Coast and joined two other NBL clubs competing from Queensland.
 The Blaze played its home games at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre (GCCEC) in Broadbeach, known as "The Furnace" within the NBL.
 The team was not related to the previous Gold Coast representative in the NBL, the Gold Coast Rollers.
The Fort Wayne General Electrics was an amateur basketball team located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and competed in the National Basketball League and the National Industrial Basketball League.
 They joined the NBL (who later formed the NBA) in 1937 but they stayed there for 1 year, returning to their amateur status.
 In 1947 they were one of the founding members of the NIBL competing there for one season.
The Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) is the pre-eminent professional women's basketball league in Australia.
 It is currently composed of eight teams.
 The league was founded in 1981 and is the women's counterpart to the National Basketball League (NBL).
 Several WNBL teams have NBL counterparts.
 The Adelaide Lightning, Melbourne Boomers, Perth Lynx, Sydney Uni Flames and Townsville Fire are the current WNBL teams sharing the market with an NBL team (although the University of Canberra Capitals and Dandenong Rangers shared a market with the Canberra Cannons and South Dragons respectively, before both NBL teams became defunct).
The current champions are the Townsville Fire.
The National Basketball League Coach of the Year is an annual National Basketball League (NBL) award given since the 1980 NBL season to the best head coach of the regular season.
 At the season's end, each club's Head Coach, one Assistant Coach and the Team Captain vote on the Coach of the Year in a 3-2-1 format (3 votes being indicative of the most deserving).
 Voters are not allowed to vote for the coach of their own team.
 The winner receives the Lindsay Gaze Trophy, which is named in honour of legendary NBL coach and Basketball Hall of Famer Lindsay Gaze, who guided the Melbourne Tigers to two NBL Championships over a long and celebrated career.
Claude "Ife" Holmes (August 15, 1905 – January 27, 1985) was an American professional basketball player.
 He played in the National Basketball League for the Fort Wayne General Electrics from 1929 to 1938.
Holmes played in 1996 in British Columbia in a local league called the Vancouver Metro Soccer League with West Van F.C.
 The following year he signed with newly expansion franchise the Toronto Lynx of the USL A-League.
 His signing was announced in a press conference revealing the inaugural 1997 team roster.
 He made his debut for the club on April 12, 1997 in a match against Jacksonville Cyclones the match resulted in 3-1 defeat for the Toronto side.
 Holmes assisted the club in qualifying for the post season for the first time in the franchise's history, by finishing 4th in the Northeastern division.
 The Lynx were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs against the Montreal Impact.
 He returned to the Lynx the following year, but failed to make the post season by finishing second last in their division.
 When the A-League season came to a conclusion, Holmes signed with the Toronto Olympians of the Canadian Professional Soccer Leaguefor the 1998 Canadian Professional Soccer League season.