Brown Bags Boomers Job

Brett Brown, who began his coaching career in the New Zealand NBL, has been selected as head coach of Australia’s men’s basketball team - the Boomers - through to London 2012.

Brown, a 48-year old American, has been an assistant coach with the famed San Antonio Spurs in the NBA for the past six years and has extensive experience with the Boomers programme and the Australian National Basketball League.

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Abo Grabs POW Honours

Just when it looked like Corey Webster would bolt in for Rookie of the Year, Thomas Abercrombie has entered the mix.

He is the second rookie to be named Player of the Week this season. Abercrombie was very active on the defensive end grabbing 10 defensive rebounds and blocking 6 shots. He was also active on the offensive end grabbing 9 offensive rebounds and scoring 12 points.

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Stephens Changes Roles

Basketball New Zealand has today announced that chief executive Dale Stephens will be changing roles within the organization.

With the FIBA U19 World Championship for Men being scheduled for Auckland in July, Stephens will transfer his promotional and media skills to the BBNZ legacy programme set up in conjunction with that tournament.

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U19s Premierships Draws

Basketball New Zealand’s second week of tournaments in 2009 tips-off with the U19 premierships at four venues around the country on Friday.

Harbour hosts the Zone 1 premiership, Tauranga is the venue for Zone 2, Wellington for Zone 3 and Zone 4 teams will play for South Island supremacy in Christchurch.

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Giants Win, Pistons Unbeaten

ecogise Nelson Giants chalked up their second win of the season with a 97-74 victory over 0800 Easy LPG Hawks at the Trafalgar Centre in Nelson tonight.
The win was largely due to a strong first quarter showing by the Giants that saw them take a 12 point lead into the quarter time break up 29-17. At the offensive end the Giants executed well with Phil Jones getting hot early, an ominous sign of things to come for the Hawks.
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Saint Mike Shoots Out Stars

The Century City Saints head home with two wins from their Auckland double header road trip after beating the Youthtown Auckland Stars on the back of 42 points from Mike Efevberha. The Saints jumped out to a 15-2 lead early in the first quarter with the Stars flat from the tip off.

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U17 Premierships Results

Basketball New Zealand’s first tournaments of 2009 got underway at four venues around the country on Friday. Check results from the U17 premierships being hosted in Whangarei, Taupo, Napier and Dunedin on the Rep Tournaments draw/results page on the BBNZ website.

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FIBA U19s Volunteer Role Call

The 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship is being held in Auckland from July 2-12, and is a unique opportunity to showcase our country and to let our personality shine through our volunteers. The FIBA U19 World Championship for Men volunteers will be the face of the event.

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Straight Shooting

Charley Rosen, FOXSports.com
Here’s another in my never-ending series of lists. In fact, this just might be the mother of all lists. The following players demonstrate the highest basketball IQ’s in the league. Not to be confused with sheer talent, the qualifications for this category include:

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Harbour Feel Heat From Saints

Appliance Shed Harbour Heat suffered their first lost of the 2009 NBL season after going down 100-85 to the Century City Saints at the North Shore Event Centre tonight. In a tight tussle that saw the Heat jump out to an early lead thanks to three big three’s from Daniel Munday in the first five minutes of the game . . .

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Heat Not Getting Carried Away

Appliance Shed Harbour Heat Head Coach Tony Webster could be forgiven for thinking all is well in the world of basketball. Three road games into the NBL season his side is unbeaten and in rookie guard Corey Webster they have the early stand out individual in the league with consecutive scores of 33, 38 and 43 points.

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NBL Preview: Round Three

Round Three begins on Thursday 26th of March when the Century City Saints (1-1) travel to Auckland for the tough double header where they first play the Appliance Shed Harbour Heat (3-0) at the North Shore Event Centre. The Heat has been on fire winning their first three games of the season all on the road.

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Polyblank In Need Of Miracle

Former Tall Blacks forward Brendon Polyblank may require a miracle for his European season to go deep into April. Polyblank and his Lausanne Basket club limped into the Swiss LNA playoffs, losing three straight games and four of their last five to claim the last postseason berth and set up a best-of-five . . .

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Lavea One Win From Title

Canterbury’s Donna Lavea will play for an NAIA national championship on Wednesday. Lavea had nine points (4/6 FG, 1/1 FT), five rebounds and two blocks in 14 minutes as the Lambuth Lady Eagles advanced to their second NAIA-D1 title game in three years, with a 65-63 semifinal win over . . .

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Bill Bounces Back From Break

With one exception, the Basketball New Zealand AGM weekend could not have been any worse for Bill Kennedy. The West Coast Basketball Association stalwart was one of three members of the basketball community to receive 50-Year Service awards during BBNZ’s annual dinner on Saturday night.

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Webster Earns POW Honours

After narrowly missing out on Round One Player of the Week Honors, Corey Webster has earned Round Two P.O.W honors with an astonishing scoring display to lead his Heat team to two road victories in Hawkes Bay and Manawatu last week. Webster was in hot form last week . . .

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Abrams Out For Season

The Devon Taranaki Dynamos have been dealt a major blow with the announcement that Link Abrams will miss the remainder of the 2009 NBL season after rupturing his Patella Tendon in last Fridays game against the Waikato Pistons. Abrams went down midway through the fourth quarter with what appeared to be a serious knee injury . . .

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Hawks Soar As Jets Crash

0800 Easy LPG Hawks and McDonalds Manawatu Jets wrapped up a bumper Round 2 of NBL action in Napier this evening with the Hawks soundly beating the Jets 106-75. The second loss in so many days for the Jets has seen them get of to the worst possible start in the 2009 NBL . . .

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Webster On Fire & Cougars, Stars Win

Appliance Shed Harbour Heat recorded their third straight win on the road to beat the McDonald Manawatu Jets 122-101 at Arena Manawatu in Palmerston North tonight. Cory Webster again provided the fire for the Heat with an astounding game high 43 points. In his rookie season in the NBL . . .

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Gallaher Wins Presidency

The governance of Basketball New Zealand took a swing to the South on the first day of the 2008 Annual General Meeting. Otago’s John Gallaher was elected president and Southland’s Jill Bolger as a board member following the vote from association delegates, board members and life members in Wellington on Saturday.

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Pistons Go 2-0

Defending NBL Champions the Waikato Pistons went 2 & 0 at the YMCA in Hamilton tonight with a 84-74 win over the Devon Taranaki Dynamos. Taranaki pushed Waikato throughout the first half with Link Abrams and Phillip Gilbert standing out for the Dynamos . . .

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National Teams Named

Basketball New Zealand confirmed four representative squads for upcoming tournaments on Friday. Five members of last year’s Junior Tall Ferns - Chevannah Paalvast, Milika Nathan, Jelena Vucinic, Zoe Kensington and Jordan Hunter - make up half the Emerging Tall Ferns (U21) squad . . .

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Title Quests End, And Begin

While quests for national championships ended for two Kiwi basketballers in the US college system last week, it starts for another two this week. Emerging Tall Blacks Zane Meehl and Mada Abdelhamid will step into action later this week in the first round of the NAIA-D1 national championship in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Harmon Ready For Tourney

Tall Ferns forward Jillian Harmon and Stanford University will ride a 16-game winning streak into the Women’s NCAA Tournament later this week. Harmon and the Cardinal, who fell in the NCAA championship game last season, missed out on a number seed for the tournament but will open their quest for the national title on Saturday as a number two seed . . .

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Oceania Series Confirmed

Basketball New Zealand’s senior national teams – the Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns – will have chances to clinch world championship berths on home hardwood, with the schedule for the 2009 FIBA Oceania Championships confirmed on Monday.

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Boucher Gets Rare Triple Double

Dillon Boucher just coming off a successful season with the NZ Breakers has got a rare triple double in just the first round of the NBL. Boucher tallied 18 points (7/10FG), 18 rebounds and 10 assists. He was very unlucky not to earn Player of the Week honors. If the Auckland Stars team had won then he would of been named player of the week but Stars fell to the Appliance Shed Harbour Heat 93-81.

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Breakers Pair All-ANBL

NZ Breakers guards Kirk Penney and CJ Bruton have been named in the Australian National Basketball League’s All-Star Five. Despite the team being eliminated in the ANBL semifinals, the star Breakers pair joined Melbourne Tigers Chris Anstey and Ebi Ere, and Mark Worthington of the champion South Dragons, in the five named on Wednesday.

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