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NBL Playoffs Push
With nine games of the Dominion Finance NBL regular season remaining, the push for the NBL Playoffs has reached the finishing stretch. Six teams make the playoffs, four teams will be sitting at home the middle two weeks of June. – UPDATED MAY 30
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Cluster Camp #2 Athlete Lists
Basketball New Zealand will conduct three development cluster camps per age group in 2008.
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Saints Regular Season Champs
Perfection at home equaled a regular season title for the Century City Wellington Saints on Thursday night. With a 96-90 win over the Youthtown Auckland Stars . . .
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Giants, Hawks Punch Tickets
One team won, the other lost – but both punched their tickets to the Dominion Finance NBL Playoffs dance on Thursday night. The fourth-placed CPS Nelson Giants got the jump on the Easy LPG Bay Hawks in the race for the final home quarterfinal spot . . .
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Marino Clutch
Pint-sized point guard Angela Marino traveled the longest to get there, but still had enough left to guide her NZ Tall Ferns to a 63-55 victory over Angola in the opening game of their European tour.
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NBL Awards - Fans Vote
Awards Time has hit the Dominion Finance NBL. And you, the fans, the loyal readers of www.basketball.org.nz, get a say.
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NBL Round 14 Guide
The Century City Wellington Saints and Waikato Pistons have confirmed spots in the Dominion Finance NBL Playoffs - and that’s about all we know for sure with two rounds of the regular season remaining.
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Nuggets Release Gayle
The Cartridge World Otago Nuggets have released American swingman Lemar Gayle for conduct detrimental to the team. Basketball Otago, which operates the Nuggets franchise, will not replace Gayle . . .
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Out Of Africa
The NZ Tall Ferns’ fortunes at the Beijing Olympics may well rest on their games against Angola on the upcoming tour of Europe. New Zealand’s national women’s basketball team face an intense itinerary . . .
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Heat Reserves Stay Unbeaten
Even without their NBL players Dan Ryan and Brandon Brighouse, the Mexicali Fresh Harbour Heat Reserves still maintained their undefeated record in round four of the Conference Basketball League (CBL) Northern Conference.
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Tab And Title, Two Games Away
Ex Tall Blacks head coach Tab Baldwin and his U Mobitelco Cluj-Napoca squad sit two games away from a championship in Romania. Cluj-Napoca lost game four of the Romania Basketball Divizia A finals 82-75 on Sunday . . .
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Wanted - Video Coach
Basketball New Zealand invites expressions of interest for the following voluntary self-funded position within its high performance development programme.
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Giant Harrison Claims PoW
American import Michael Harrison did not put up gawdy numbers in round 13 of the Dominion Finance NBL. But he did stuff the stat-sheet en route to Player of the Week honours.
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Box Out - Basketball TV Guide
It’s a basketball scene on your TV screen and here’s what we mean . . . welcome to Box Out, your weekly hoops guide.
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Playoff Forecast Still Cloudy
The home semifinal situation may have got some clarification but the quarterfinal mix got no clearer in round 13 of the Dominion Finance NBL. While the Century City Wellington Saints and Waikato Pistons . . .
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Giants Clip Hawks At Home
The CPS Nelson Giants returned to their formidable selves at home in the Dominion Finance NBL on Saturday night. With 20-point games from Phill Jones, Chris Daniel and import Michael Harrison . . .
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Saints Punch Playoff Ticket
One team booked their playoff berth while another saw their chances further diminish in the Dominion Finance NBL on Friday night. The Century City Wellington Saints became the second team . . .
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Upcoming Events
Friday, May 30 - Monday, June 2
Oreo Under-17 Nationals
Edgar Centre, Dunedin
Oreo Under-19 Nationals
Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre, Tauranga
Saturday, May 31
Tall Ferns in Europe
Tall Ferns vs Spain, 6am
NBL
Property Brokers Manawatu Jets vs Century City Wellington Saints
Arena Manawatu, Palmerston North, 6pm
Cartridge World Otago Nuggets vs Youthtown Auckland Stars
Lion Foundation Arena, Dunedin, 7.30pm
Sunday, June 1
Tall Ferns in Europe
Tall Blacks vs Japan, 6am
Monday, June 2
NBL
Easy LPG Bay Hawks vs Youthtown Auckland Stars
Pettigrew.Green Arena, Taradale, 4pm
Tuesday, June 3
Tall Ferns in Europe
Tall Ferns vs Angola, 5am
Wednesday, June 4
NBL
Devon Dynamos Taranaki vs Property Brokers Manawatu Jets
TSB Stadium, New Plymouth, 7pm
Thursday, June 5
Tall Ferns in Europe
Tall Ferns vs Czech Republic, 5am
NBL
Youthtown Auckland Stars vs Waikato Pistons
ASB Stadium, Auckland, 7.30pm
Friday, June 6
Tall Ferns in Europe
Tall Ferns vs Czech Republic, 5am
NBL
Easy LPG Bay Hawks vs CPS Nelson Giants
Pettigrew.Green Arena, Taradale, 7pm
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