Firstly to confirm that unfortunately BJ Anthony’s season with the Adelaide 36ers has come to an end. Continue reading
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Kiwis Abroad including season ending injury for BJ Anthony
Unfortunately BJ Anthony’s season with the Adelaide 36ers has come to an abrupt end. The Tall Black’s power forward was enjoying an outstanding game against former club the Sky City Breakers before he fell innocuously in mid court, suffering a ruptured Achilles. Anthony had contributed 11 points and 9 rebounds before having to be assisted from the court midway through the final period. To make matters worse for Anthony the 36ers suffered an 84-71 home loss. Continue reading
Kiwis Abroad Enjoy Success To End 2014
This abbreviated version of ‘Kiwis Abroad’ covers off the four games played on New Years Eve that featured New Zealand players and the quartet all had cause to celebrate the New Year in style as their teams closed 2014 with victories. Continue reading
Kiwis Abroad at Xmas
New Zealand basketball fans were given a Boxing Day treat with the Oklahoma City Thunder encounter against San Antonio Spurs shown live on Sky Sport. Continue reading
Kiwis Abroad
I forgot to mention in my previous posts that Cantabrian Erin Rooney is enjoying a successful time in the French League averaging 6.7 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. Continue reading
State of Origin Match Report
The inaugural ABSL State of Origin basketball game was held at the Auckland University Sports Centre on Tuesday night. The composition of the teams was based on where the team members played their junior basketball with Auckland taking on the South. Continue reading
Kiwis Abroad
There have been some outstanding performances in the past few days by many of our New Zealand international players plying their trade overseas. Steve Adams in the NBA headlined these performances. Continue reading
Kiwis Abroad
Last week it was a clash of the Kiwi women in the Australian WNBL as Townsville’s Tall Ferns Micaela Cocks and Jillian Harmon took on fellow international Toni Edmondson’s West Coast Waves. Continue reading
The Isaac Fotu Story
It is hard to believe that Issac Fotu, just embarking on his professional basketball career in Spain, was almost lost to the game of basketball six years ago. Continue reading
Kiwis Abroad
It was a clash of the Kiwis in the Australian WNBL as the West Coast Waves visited the Townsville Fire on Saturday night in northern Queensland. Continue reading
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