This New Zealand Breakers Season Is Capitulating Before Our Very Eyes
There were plenty of reasons to discount the New Zealand Breakers heading into NBL25. Yet they were 2-0 when they flew to the USA and then they returned and they kept winning.
A New Australian NBL Season Looms And Once Again It’s Chock-Full Of Kiwi Players
Last season the Breakers gave fewer minutes to NZers than ever before (a record that they’re going to crush again in NBL25) and yet it was still the most prosperous season we’ve ever witnessed for kiwi players in that league.
Why Aren't The New Zealand Breakers Signing New Zealand Players?
These are glorious times for basketball in Aotearoa. Already established as the fastest growing sport in the country, we recently saw the New Zealand team finish fourth at the FIBA Men’s U17 World Championships, with Oscar Goodman crowned as part of the tournament’s All Star Five…
How Have Those NZ Breakers Next Star Lads Been Tracking Since Their NBA Drafts?
A record was broken last Thursday afternoon when, at the 2024 NBA Draft, the Washington Wizards selected Alexandre Sarr with the second overall pick. Sarr just so happened to have spent the past season with the Perth Wildcats as part of the Australian NBL’s Next Star programme
The Breakers Are No Longer Coached By Mody Maor
As we traversed what was already shaping up to be a concerning offseason, the feeling was that the Breakers would be alright as long as Head Coach Mody Maor was around. But now he’s leaving.
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
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
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.
The Breakers Were Wooden-Spooners, Now One Year Later They’re NBL Finals-Bound
It’s not supposed to happen that a team finishes dead last one season then surges into triumphant championship contention the next. Standard convention says that it takes time to traverse that distance
The Breakers Have Rediscovered Their Mana, Aotearoa Rejoice
Scream it from the bell towers: the Breakers are back. We’re halfway through the NBL season and this is not a drill. The New Zealand Breakers are winning games and playing lockdown defence
Don’t Look Now But Maybe, Just Maybe, The Breakers Are Starting To Turn Things Around
Credit where credit is due because the Breakers have done a lot of nice things in the weeks since Mody Maor took over as head coach. Logical, respectable roster building things
There Goes Another Disappointing Breakers Season
You could be forgiven for not even realising that the Breakers season ended when it did. If you’ve already muted the meme factory official social accounts and long since tuned out of the latest procession of defeats then it would’ve been hard to keep up. Couldn’t blame you either
The Breakers Are Not A Very Good Basketball Team Right Now (And You Can't Just Blame Covid)
The Breakers were supposed to be playing the Cairns Taipans on New Year’s Eve but covid protocols saw an end to that possibility. One of a number of games that have been postponed in the NBL lately... giving the Breaks a sneaky two weeks off after losing to the Tasmania Jack Jumpers on Boxing Day
The Breakers’ Latest Prospect Seems Strangely Familiar...
Does this Princepal Singh/Breakers signing sound familiar to you? Because it should... this is basically exactly the same thing that they did with Terry Li, the Chinese prospect who was picked up on the exact same length of contract two years ago.
Will This Be The Season That The Breakers Actually Live Up To The Hype?
The hype is there, the hype is always there. If there’s one thing these Breakers know how to do it’s to present an exciting, energetic, ambitious front. The hype ain’t imaged either.
Roster Tweaking & Other Offseason Occurrences with the NZ Breakers
It was back on July 9 that it was first reported that the Breakers had picked up Peyton Siva and Hugo Besson on import contracts for the upcoming NBL season. The pair travelled to Aotearoa some time in the subsequent weeks but it was only on August 22 that Siva was finally announced.
Rounding Up The Exploits Of The Kiwi Contingent In NBL21
It hasn’t always been this way. This overflow of kiwi ballers in the Aussie league, it used to be a couple of top tier Tall Blacks plying their trade across the Tasman and then a large contingent of Breakers dudes.
How Did The Breakers Fall So Far Short Of Expectations In NBL21?
Well that was bloody awful, wasn’t it? Some nice moments along the home stretch perhaps, that was cool, but the New Zealand Breakers entered this season expecting to be able to challenge for a championship. That was the target.