NZ basketball

[CanadianSteve]

I was reading this page about the NZ NBL:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2922902a8953,00.html

It seems their season is on now. When does their season run, in comparison to the Aussie NBL season?

Do players who played for the NZ team in the Aussie league also play in the NZ league?

 

[thewizard1o1]

Well, i didn't even know they had a NZ NBL :shock:.

It must start a couple of weeks maybe a month after the AUS NBL finishes. So i would assume that alot of the players in the NZ team in the AUS league would also play in the NZ NBL.

 

[nibbs]

it started after the Aussie NBL finished, and it will be completed before the Aussie NBL restarts. this season has been the best yet. The stupid Waikato Titans are no longer winning everything. Everything has been really close, except for the shitty Canterbury Rams and the Otago Nuggets, they sux. go the Auckland Stars...

and yes, all the Breaker, as far as I know, play in this league, their respective teams.

 

[CanadianSteve]

So how many months, and games, will that be for those Breaker players? I wonder if they will be susceptible to injury from playing 2 seasons back to back.

I remember in 1988, the last year US college stars played in the Olympics, Danny Manning blew his knee out in his rookie year, and a number of other Olympians turned NBA rookies got hurt. Some blamed it on the extra stress of going from the Olympics right into the long, gruelling NBA season.

 

[Anonymous]

There are even a few good players from Aussie NBL teams playing in it this season, like Geordie Cullen who I think is playing for Waikato.