EOI's Wanted

Basketball New Zealand is seeking expressions of interest to host a variety of international and national basketball events scheduled for 2009.

These events include, but are not limited to ...

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Penney Best For Month

NZ Breakers shooting star Kirk Penney and South Dragons coach Brian Goorjian have won the Player and Coach of the Month awards respectively in the Australian NBL for September/October.

Penney was a spitfire for the Breakers between Rounds One and Seven, averaging 26.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.3 assist and 1.0 steal per game for the month. The former NBA player shot the ball at 49 percent from the field, a sizzling 37 percent from beyond the three-point line and made an impressive 87 percent of his foul shots.

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Breakers Strangle Snakes

Jamie Townsend, Sportal
The New Zealand Breakers have avenged an Australian National Basketball League overtime loss to the Cairns Taipans three weeks ago by winning 93-81 at the Cairns Convention Centre on Wednesday night.

The Breakers trailed for much of the match but finished the stronger with a 26-14 final term guiding them to victory.

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Penney Earns 2nd PoW

Kirk Penney has picked up his second Player of the Week honour of the 2008-09 Australian National Basketball League season after the NZ Breakers star was named as the Round Eight award winner.

Penney, who also took out the NBL’s weekly honours in Round One and is an early favourite for League Most Valuable Player honours, led his team to a 1-1 record for the week.

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NBL Imports In D-League

Current National Basketball League All-Star Ernest Scott will continue to chase the NBA dream this Northern winter.

Scott, a star for the regular season champion Wellington Saints in 2008, was one of three former NBL imports selected in last week’s NBA Development League Draft, being joined by former Auckland Stars guard Brock Gillespie and Taranaki Mountain Airs scoring champion Garry Hill-Thomas.

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Marino Strikes For Lightning

Tall Ferns point guard Angela Marino produced a top shelf performance in Australia’s Top End in round six of the Australian Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL).

Marino had 23 points (7/12 FG, 4/6 3pt, 5/5 FT) to go with five assists, three rebounds and a steal in 29 minutes as the defending champion Adelaide Lightning defeated the Perth Lynx 117-83 in Darwin on Saturday night.

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Daniel Lights Up Sing-Sing

With three starters out, Chris Daniel took it upon himself to steer the Singapore Slingers home last week.

Daniel scored 29 points on 9-of-18 shooting from the field and a perfect 10-of-10 from the free-throw line as the Slingers defeated the Malaysian All-Stars 92-80 on Wednesday as part of the Singapore Exhibition Series.

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Daly News: Aidan Joins Jets

Manawatu Jets head coach Tim McTamney is excited and with good reason.

The Jets have added a major player to their already improved 2009 squad, signing starting Bay Hawks point guard Aidan Daly.

With 16 weeks until tip-off of the 2009 National Basketball League (NBL), signing Daly, 30, has cemented the Jets squad as true contenders of the competition.

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Break' Show Edges Tigers

Ronny Lerner, Sportal
The New Zealand Breakers have moved to second spot on the Australian National Basketball League ladder after handing the Melbourne Tigers a heartbreaking 86-84 defeat at the State Netball and Hockey Centre on Saturday night.

In a game that gave fans a tantalizing preview of what the playoffs will be like this season, the visitors led by as much as 22 points in the third quarter (67-45) but a Sam Mackinnon-inspired Melbourne outfit flexed its considerable muscle to completely eliminate the deficit in the final quarter although never managing to wrest back the lead it only ever enjoyed in the first quarter.

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