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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]
In New Zealand, ESPN New Zealand will be the official league broadcaster. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As Australia and New Zealand participated in 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification , the league took a break during the FIBA international windows of 21–24 November 2024 and 20–23 February 2025.
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.
New Zealand has one professional basketball team, the New Zealand Breakers, who compete in the Australian National Basketball League (ANBL). They do, however, have a semi-professional league which runs during winter months, the National Basketball League (New Zealand), with 9 teams competing. These teams attract strong local followings but ...
The Indian Panthers are a New Zealand-based Indian professional basketball team that will compete in the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL) beginning in 2025. The Panthers will be based in South Auckland and play their home games at Pulman Arena in Takanini, with Auckland being home to the largest percentage of migrants from India as of the 2023 census.
The 2022 NBL season was the 41st season of the National Basketball League.For the second year in a row, the league fielded 10 teams, with the only changes being the rebrand of the Auckland Huskies to Auckland Tuatara and Taranaki Mountainairs to Taranaki Airs.
Below is a list of the New Zealand National Basketball League (NBL) champions. The NBL's championship round has predominantly been a one-game decider, with the exception being 1995–97 and 2007–10 when a best-of-three finals series was used.