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Graffy Takes Charge
Former Tall Fern coach Carrie Graf will face her old team next year after her appointment as head coach of the world champion Australian Opals. Graf will lead the Aussie women through the 2010 FIBA World Championship . . .
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Jets Sign McSponsor
Penny Miles, Manawatu Standard
The Manawatu Jets have bucked the trend of economic gloom by securing a major sponsor for the upcoming National Basketball League season. The Jets are one of just five NBL franchises with a sponsor and the signing comes earlier than last year’s sponsorship agreement . . .
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Giants Go Eco
Pete McNae, Nelson Mail
It’s been a tough week for the National Basketball League. The Otago Nuggets are gone, for one season at least, while the Bay Hawks and Canterbury Rams are hanging on by the tips of their talons and hooves, respectively. So, when the Nelson Giants secured a new long-term naming rights sponsor . . .
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All-NZ Invitees
Sixty of New Zealand’s most promising teenage basketballers have been invited to the 2009 All-NZ Camp at Palmerston North, January 22-30. The fourth edition of the All-NZ format, a high-intensity camp focused on international-level development, will target athletes in the national U17 (Emerging Junior Tall Blacks & Emerging Junior Tall Ferns) and U16 programmes.
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Pardon Me, Coming Through
With help from former Tall Ferns guard Lisa Pardon, the Bulleen Boomers continue to prove they can hang with the big three in the Australian Women’s National Basketball League. Pardon scored 17 points in just 16 minutes of court time as the Boomers handed the ailing defending champion Adelaide Lightning . . .
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Vucinic Movin' On Up
Tall Blacks coach Nenad Vucinic continues to ride the form surge in Eastern Europe. Vucinic’s BC Kalev/Cramo upended Estonian rivals TU/Rock in an 87-83 overtime road thriller in Tartu on Saturday, continuing the club’s elevator ride up the Baltic Basketball League standings . . .
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Support Keeps Hawks Flying
Anendra Singh, Hawke’s Bay Today
Basketball fans need not despair. The Bay Hawks will soar next season. Former high-flying administrator Jeremy Bayliss said in an exclusive interview last night that the people of Hawke’s Bay had dug deep to ensure the province’s premier basketballers will be tipping off in the 2009 National Basketball League (NBL) . . .
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Adam Gets To Recruiting
Murray Hills, Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki National Basketball League franchise coach Trent Adam hopes to have a number of his playing roster signed and sealed by Christmas. “I’m in talks with several players now,” Adam said. “I expect to have an import signed in the next two weeks and have a few other players signed up before Christmas.”
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Nine In
The National Basketball League board has confirmed nine teams for the 2009 competition. Those teams are Auckland Stars, Canterbury Rams, Harbour Heat, Bay Hawks, Manawatu Jets, Nelson Giants, Taranaki Dynamos, Waikato Pistons and Wellington Saints.
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Nuggets Withdraw
The Otago Nuggets have decided to drop out of the 2009 National Basketball League despite a desperate last-ditch effort to save the competition’s southern-most franchise. “Following various meetings and discussions with the ‘Save the Nuggets’ group and after considerable discussion and deliberation . . .
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December 13-16
Junior Tall Blacks Camp #1
Te Rauparaha Arena, Porirua
December 12-14
Women's Academy Trials
North Shore YMCA, North Shore
Thursday, December 18
NZ Breakers vs Wollongong Hawks
NSEC, 7.30pm (8pm Maori TV)
Saturday, December 20
NZ Breakers @ Perth Wildcats
Perth, 11pm (NZ Time)
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