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The 2024–25 NBL season will be the 47th season of the National Basketball League since its establishment in 1979. A total of ten teams contested in the 2024–25 season. The league extended its partnership with ESPN Australia. All games are available live on ESPN, Kayo Sports and Fetch TV. [1]
The early 1990s held dwindling fortunes for New Zealand basketball and many teams in the NZNBL, with reduced TV coverage, sponsorships, and crowd numbers. [2] With the success of the Tall Blacks at the 2002 FIBA World Championship and the introduction of the New Zealand Breakers in the Australian NBL in 2003, basketball in New Zealand rose in ...
The 2024 NBL season was the 43rd season of the National Basketball League. The competition increased to 11 teams in 2024 with the Tauranga Whai joining the league for the first time. The 2024 season saw the return of a pre-season blitz for the first time since 2018 [1] as well as the introduction of a mid-season trade window. [2] [3] [4]
ESPN Australia is the Australian ... network's highest ever audience with 116,000 viewers watching the game live, ... New Zealand) National Basketball League ...
The 2024–25 New Zealand Breakers season is the 22nd season of the franchise in the National Basketball League (NBL), and their first under the leadership of their new head coach Petteri Koponen. [ 1 ]
The 2023 NBL season was the 42nd season of the National Basketball League.For the third year in a row, the league fielded 10 teams. The regular season commenced on 6 April in Pukekohe, with the Franklin Bulls hosting the Hawke's Bay Hawks at Franklin Pool and Leisure Centre, and contained 15 weeks followed by a four-day finals schedule in July.
In 1998 the Keith Mair-coached Tall Blacks beat Canada 85–79, a win that one commentator said confirmed ‘the Tall Blacks coming of age as a legitimate international basketball force.’1 In the same year the New Zealand Basketball Federation changed its name to Basketball New Zealand (BBNZ). Both national sides made their Olympic debuts in ...
The 2024 NBL Finals was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball League's 2023–24 season. As Australia and New Zealand participated in 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification , the league took a break during the FIBA international window of 18–28 February 2024.