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Penney Spurs Breakers
Joel Tiller, Sportal
NZ Breakers lynch-pin shooting guard Kirk Penney says his career-high 41-point haul wasn’t the key to his team’s fourth quarter demolition of Wollongong in the ANBL Hummer Championship on Thursday night.
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Hosts Reign
Hosts Harbour Breeze and New Plymouth have secured semifinal spots at the Harbour Invitational Women’s Tournament. Harbour, the reigning Women’s Conference League champions, defeated their rivals . . .
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Luke Plays, For Now
Wellington Saints point guard Luke Martin has been allowed to play for the Sydney Spirit in the Australian National Basketball League. For now, at least. With the Spirit unable to fit Martin under the player points cap . . .
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Time To Walk Tall
Marc Hinton, Fairfax Media
Experienced Breakers point guard Paul Henare has called on the tooled up New Zealand franchise to take a swagger into this year’s Australian National Basketball League competition. The Breakers tip off their 2008-09 campaign with the first of five straight home matches . . .
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NBL Review Calls For Change
Basketball New Zealand has offered National Basketball League franchises control of the competition from 2009. NBL governance has been a keenly debated issue in recent seasons with teams previously unrepresented on the controlling board.
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Expressions Of Interest
Basketball New Zealand invites expressions of interest for the following voluntary positions with 2009 national age group programmes.
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Wanted: Development Officer
Sport Waikato, in partnership with local basketball associations and the SportsForce programme, needs an energetic and positive person to drive club, school and junior programmes.
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Rickert Ready
Gary Birkett, Sunday Star Times
Rick Rickert is sick of talking about the back injury which cut him down after 13 games for the New Zealand Breakers in his debut season. The Minnesota native, an all-action 211cm power forward who was averaging . . .
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Le Toa Lights Up Levin
Melissa Letoa is to the Wellington women what Kirk Penney is to the Tall Blacks. Letoa went off for 37 points in the final and hit the dagger shot from deep as Wellington ended the Southland Pearls bid for back-to-back titles . . .
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Morehu Banks Championship
Morehu Easts tried to get rid of Cardinals all game long. In the closing three minutes, they finally happened. Behind 16 points from Brook Rapson and 11 points from tournament MVP Jeremy Banks, Wellington’s Morehu Easts defeated Palmerston North club Cardinals . . .
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Cantabs Roll To Title
You only have to glance over the tournament team to understand Canterbury’s wheelchair domination at the Oreo Open and Wheelchair National Championships. The Cantabs had four players – Travis Moffat, John Wieser, Reo Lewis and Australian import and tournament MVP Andrew Tarrant . . .
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Open & WC Tourney Teams
Morehu Easts forward Jeremy Banks, Wellington guard Melissa Letoa and Canterbury’s Australian import Andrew Tarrant collected MVP medals at the Oreo Open and Wheelchair National Championships in Levin on Sunday.
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Boucher Happy With Home
Michael Brown, Herald on Sunday
There’s a fine line between love and hate when it comes to Dillon Boucher. It’s hard to find a bigger devotee of the New Zealand Breakers than the 32-year-old but for three years he despised the franchise.
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Capital Sides Take Opens
Capitals sides claimed both the men’s and women’s titles at the Oreo Open and Wheelchair Basketball National Championships in Levin on Sunday.
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Bruton Adds Options
Steve Deane, NZ Herald
“What do you want me for, this place is all about Kirk isn’t it?” quipped veteran Tony Ronaldson as he turned up for the press conference after the New Zealand Breakers‘ home win against eventual champions Melbourne Tigers.
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Pearls Get Their Wish
Southland Pearls coach Richard Dickel wanted another shot at Wellington. Well, he got it. The defending champion Pearls will have to get by a rampant Wellington side to win back-to-back women’s titles at the Oreo Open and Wheelchair Basketball National Championships . . .
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Mum's Job Never Over
Southland Pearls guards Melinda Martin-Donnelly and Patrice Humm have more than just basketball opponents to deal with at the Oreo Open and Wheelchair Basketball National Championships.
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Fatigue Shooting Drills
Kevin Sutton is the head coach at Montverde Academy in Florida and is considered one of the best high school coaches in the USA. He says shooting percentage have slowly decreased due to poor shot selection and the inability to shoot under fatigue. Here, he maps out a shooting workout to help players deal with shooting while fatigued.
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September 29-October 4
AA Secondary Schools National Championships
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