Previewing The Tall Blacks’ 2024 Olympic Qualifying Campaign
A few months ago, the Tall Ferns set out to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics. They did not make it. So can the Tall Blacks end the drought instead?
Picking One Intriguing Player From Every NZ NBL Team
Gotta love a bit of Aotearoa’s National Basketball League. It’s a rapidly growing competition that regularly attracts most of the country’s best players whilst also attracting a decent level of import and still finding room to boost up the next generation
The Breakers Have Bowed Out Of NBL24, But It Wasn't Without A Fight
In a topsy-turvy, up-and-down season... the Breakers finished about where they should have: right in the middle. They made the play-ins but not the playoffs, winning one knockout game but losing the other
Recapping The Tall Ferns Efforts At The 2024 Olympic Qualifiers
The Tall Ferns will not be going to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. A narrow defeat against Puerto Rico in their qualifying tournament made sure of that, as a very inexperienced and injury-ravaged Aotearoa side fell agonisingly short of their goal
Answering The Big Questions About Steven Adams Getting Traded To The Houston Rockets
The news came through at 12:41pm on Friday in the same way that all NBA news comes through: via a tweet from Adrian Wojnarowski.
Previewing The Tall Ferns Quest For 2024 Olympic Qualification
It’s been a long time since Aotearoa last had a basketballing presence at the Olympics. You’ve got to go all the way back to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for the last appearance.
The Long, Confusing Timeline of Steven Adams’ Knee Injury
It’s just not the same without Steven Adams. Even since he first got injured diving for a loose ball late in a game back in January, the NBA has been missing its heartbeat
The NZ Breakers Have Plummeted Again... What’s Going On?
There is a possibility, something we need to at least consider, that perhaps maybe potentially we might have given the New Zealand Breakers too much credit. When they turned everything around so suddenly last season it was natural to feel as though…
The NZ Breakers Are Ready To Repeat The Dose in NBL24
After several years of mediocrity, some pandemic-influenced and some not, the Breakers surged back into Australian National Basketball League prominence last season under the inspirational guidance of new head coach Mody Maor
Reviewing The Aotearoa Tall Blacks At The 2023 FIBA World Cup
There’s one thing you can never doubt about any Tall Blacks team: no matter who’s got that black singlet on, they’re going to bring the passion, the commitment, the mana that has become a prerequisite for this team
Meet Michael Wilson, The Closest Thing To A Kiwi In The NFL Right Now
There hasn’t been a kiwi in the NFL since Paul Lasike’s short but memorable stint and as the 2023 season edges close to its kickoff there isn’t going to be one this year either. But there is a bloke who comes close.
Previewing the Aotearoa Tall Blacks at the 2023 FIBA World Cup
The Tall Blacks always bring a certain level of mana with them no matter who’s reppin’ the jersey. There’s going to be passion and cohesion and defensive grit. Regardless. That’s just how this team operates
Recapping Tall Ferns Exploits at the 2023 Asia Cup
The Tall Ferns hit up this Asia Cup with a clear target in mind: a top four finish. Make the semi-finals of this tournament for the first ever time, see if they can’t win a medal while they’re at it, and most importantly stay in the hunt for Olympic qualification
The Quotable Steven Adams: 2022-23 Edition
It was a season like none other for Aotearoa’s finest basketballing export. For half of it he was an unstoppable rebounding machine even by his own high standards. Then he got injured.
Previewing The Tall Ferns On Their 2023 Asia Cup Quest
The FIBA Women’s Asia Cup is taking place in Sydney, Australia next week and the Tall Ferns have a task ahead of them. Winning this thing may not be realistic but that’s fine, the real task is getting into the top four
10 NZNBL Players Who Deserve A Crack In The Aussie NBL
New Zealanders are steadily infiltrating the Australian NBL and folks are slowly starting to notice… although those on this side of the Tasman Sea understand that this is not a new trend
Getting Up To Date With NZ Breakers Offseason Activities Ahead Of NBL24
The first thing that needed doing this offseason was consolidating the playing roster. They’d had a brilliant campaign, come up narrowly short in the finals where they were beaten in the decisive game five, but pretty much their entire main rotation were off contract
Kiwi Steve in the NBA #8: At Season’s End
The Memphis Grizzlies came to an inglorious conclusion as they were bounced in the first round by a seventh seed. Steven Adams didn’t play a single game after the month of January and that whole situation has been kept annoyingly murky
The Breakers Struck The Ideal NBL Next Star Balance With Rayan Rupert
The whole Next Star journey has been a strange one for the Breakers but as their latest foreign prospect officially declares for the NBA Draft it seems as though they’ve finally figured it out
An NBL Free Agency Primer For Breakers + NZers At Australian Teams
Breakers recruitment this season was top notch and for once they’ve actually got the structure, the success, and the coach to be able to do something they have not yet done since the change in ownership: retain an import signing.