Tall Blacks News
May 21, 2013
The Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns will play at home for the first time in four years at the North Shore Events Centre on August 14.
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May 11, 2013
Paulo Kennedy, FIBA
With the New Zealand Breakers’ 2013 championship victory came the end of legendary New Zealand forward Dillon Boucher‘s incredible career.
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April 22, 2013
Welcome to The Huddle, Basketball New Zealand’s new supporters club for the Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns programmes.
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April 2, 2013
New Zealand will be well represented on both sides of the court, when the Australian NBL finals tip off at Auckland’s Vector Arena on Sunday.
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March 22, 2013
Kiwi centre Steve Adams had the stats, but Tall Black Rob Loe got the “W” to progress to the third round of the US national college basketball championship.
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March 20, 2013
A message from BBNZ chief executive Iain Potter, re the Toyota “25 Ways to Say Thanks” campaign.
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March 16, 2013
Paulo Kennedy, FIBA
Something pretty amazing happened at the North Shore Events Centre in Auckland on Thursday.
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March 4, 2013
Tall Ferns guard Micaela Cocks will be playing for an Australian WNBL championship next weekend, after leading her Townsville Fire to an upset 78-64 road win over Dandenong.
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March 4, 2013
Toyota are celebrating 25 years of being New Zealand’s top-selling car, and what better way of doing that than helping Basketball New Zealand save the Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns programmes.
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February 19, 2013
Tall Blacks forward Jeremiah Trueman enjoyed some welcome court-time and responded by leading his Perth Wildcats past the Townsville Crocs 80-52 in the Australian NBL over the weekend.
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February 4, 2013
Another “Kiwi” has quietly made his NBA debut … sort of.
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February 1, 2013
Logan Savory, stuff.co.nz
New Zealand basketball legend Pero Cameron fears the Tall Blacks’ real potential won’t be fulfilled because of a lack of funding and he is concerned for the flagship team’s future.
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January 29, 2013
Tall Ferns captain Natalie Taylor has vowed to battle back from a knee injury that has ended her Australian WNBL season.
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January 22, 2013
Tall Blacks guard Everard Bartlett made the most of his opportunities to help Perth Wildcats to victory over Cairns Taipans in the Australian NBL.
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January 7, 2013
Tall Blacks forward Isaac Fotu has helped University of Hawaii to the top of the Big West Conference standings, putting together a career night in a thrilling home win against Cal State Fullerton in US college play.
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January 6, 2013
Paulo Kennedy, FIBA
It is hard to imagine asking the world’s 18th best men’s national team in a sport of over 200 countries to walk into their continental championship without playing any practice games. Continue reading »
January 3, 2013
In US college hoops, Tall Ferns guard Erin Rooney finally saw her double-figure scoring run end, but came within an ace of her first career triple double, as Fordham University defeated Colorado State 64-59 in double overtime.
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December 26, 2012
Tall Ferns captain Natalie Taylor helped her Logan Thunder to an 82-79 road victory over Bulleen in the Australian WNBL over the weekend.
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December 22, 2012
Sam Worthington, stuff.co.nz
Basketball New Zealand chief executive Iain Potter is trying to bounce back from the disappointment of Tuesday’s high performance funding cut. He talks to Sam Worthington about where to now for the sport.
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December 20, 2012
Sam Worthington, stuff.co.nz
Wellington Saints owner Nick Mills has hatched a left field plan to lease the Tall Blacks brand in a bid to stop the sport dying at international level.
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December 18, 2012
High Performance Sport NZ has left both the Tall Blacks and the Tall Ferns out of its 2013 funding allocations. Basketball New Zealand chief executive Iain Potter explains what this means for our international programmes.
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December 17, 2012
Kiwi NBA prospect Steve Adams had his best game since arriving at the University of Pittsburgh, producing a double double in an 89-40 home victory over Bethune-Cookman.
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December 15, 2012
FIBA
Tai Webster knew what he was talking about this past summer, when he considered the bright future for the New Zealand Tall Blacks.
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December 14, 2012
Tall Black Kirk Penney again showed why he is one of the world’s leading shooting guards in the world, guiding Turkish club team TED Kolejliler to an 86-85 win over powerhouse Anadolu Efes.
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December 10, 2012
Tall Ferns Micaela Cocks and skipper Natalie Taylor went head-to-head in the Australian WNBL, with Cocks claiming honours in Townsville Fire’s 85-72 over Logan Thunder.
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December 6, 2012
Sam Worthington, stuff.co.nz
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December 3, 2012
Former Tall Blacks coach Tab Baldwin has begun the Chinese national league (CBA) season with three wins and a loss to the Fujian Sturgeons in the opening four rounds.
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November 29, 2012
A commemorative time capsule, featuring items symbolising “what represents youth today” will be showcased and sealed at Youthtown’s final 80 Years Young celebration at Nelson Street, Auckland, on Saturday, December 1.
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November 28, 2012
Tall Blacks and NZ Breakers legend Dillon Boucher has signed with Wellington Saints for the 2013 Bartercard NBL season.
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November 26, 2012
Just call Tall Fern point guard Jordan Hunter “Ms Big Shot”, after she produced her second game-winning basket in the space of a week.
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November 23, 2012
Tall Black Isaac Fotu, and Tall Ferns Jordan Hunter and Jelena Vucinic starred for their respective US college teams, helping steer University of Hawaii, Southeast Missouri University and Louisianna Tech to tough victories.
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November 21, 2012
Marc Hinton, stuff.co.nz
A dramatic makeover of men’s international basketball has major upside for the Tall Blacks, though will come at a significant cost, warns the new boss of Basketball New Zealand.
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November 19, 2012
Tall Black Kirk Penney could not rescue his TED Kolejliler from defeat in the Turkish Basketball League, tumbling 66-90 to Galatasaray.
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November 16, 2012
FIBA
Leading voices in New Zealand and Brazilian basketball have joined the chorus of praise of a new competition format and calendar announced by FIBA in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend.
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November 14, 2012
Tall Black forward Isaac Fotu helped University of Hawaii win the Rainbow Classic tournament at Honolulu, defeating Houston Baptist 73-60 in the final.
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November 13, 2012
FIBA has revised its competition schedule for men, sending the Tall Blacks through a combined Oceania/Asia qualification process for the 2019 World Cup.
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November 12, 2012
Tall Ferns coach Kennedy Kereama got one over international captain Natalie Taylor, as his West Coast Waves overcame Logan Thunder 71-54 on their Australia WNBL road trip. Continue reading »
November 6, 2012
Tall Blacks Isaac Fotu and Rob Loe, and Tall Fern Jordan Hunter opened their US college accounts for the new season, helping their schools to victory in exhibition games over the weekend.
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November 5, 2012
OceanaGold Nuggets captain and Tall Black Mark Dickel is offering quality basketball development camps during the 2013 January school holidays for all players aged over 13 years.
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October 31, 2012
The rock behind the success of the Wellington Saints for the past three years – Casey Frank – has confirmed he is returning.
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