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Anthony Au-Yeung/Getty Images Aussie guard William McDowell-White is set to join the New Zealand Breakers for the rest of the NBL season. The Breakers have added another Australian and a journeyman import to their roster as they confront an extended period without second leading scorer Corey Webster and star import Lamar Patterson this Australian NBL season. The vastly undermanned Kiwi club dropped to 4-7 for the season (eighth of the nine clubs) with a Friday night 85-75 defeat to the Perth W...

Photo: PHOTOSPORT Breakers owner Matt Walsh wasnt too worried if his players vented on social media about the situation they find themselves in, but he said support was in place to help them deal with their struggles less publicly. The players and staff left Auckland in mid-December for the Australian National Basketball League season and have not settled since. They landed in Melbourne before a change in Covid-19 restrictions sent them to Tasmania, the group moved around playing games in Adela...

Corey Webster paced the Breakers with 24 points in their defeat to the Sydney Kings in Melbourne. Corey Webster tried his darnedest, but the Breakers ultimately paid the price for their lack of firepower as they crashed to a 96-78 defeat to the Sydney Kings in Melbourne on Thursday night. Down import Lamar Patterson (at least a month with a knee injury) and departed Tall Blacks centre Rob Loe, Dan Shamirs side hit the skids after a sharp opening quarter and sunk to their sixth defeat in seven ...

The bad luck keeps coming for the Kiwi ANBL club, who will have to do without their star import for at least a month.

Darrian Traynor/Getty Images Colton Iverson had his best game for the Breakers in their NBL Cup opener against the Illawarra Hawks. The Breakers got a timely double-double from American big man Colton Iverson, but it was nowhere near enough to snap their losing skid in the Australian NBL in Melbourne on Monday night. The New Zealand club, who had lost four of their first five games in the new season hitherto, opened the NBL Cup hub in Victoria with a 102-88 defeat to the Illawarra Hawks that w...

Kiwi ANBL club heads to Sydney with plenty to ponder after dropping to third defeat for the season.

Albert Perez/Getty Images CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 08: New Zealand Breakers head coach Dan Shamir watches on during the round four NBL match between the Cairns Taipans and the New Zealand Breakers at Cairns Pop Up Arena, on February 08, 2021, in Cairns, Australia. (Photo by Albert Perez/Getty Images) Just 48 hours after their best performance of the Australian NBL season, the struggling New Zealand Breakers pitched in with their worst against the same opponents in Cairns. The Kiwi club, on...

Breakers dunk Taipans Breakers coach Dan Shamir had no doubts that his star import Lamar Patterson would break out of his early Australian NBL funk and deliver a signature performance. As they say, form is temporary, and class permanent. That it happened in game three, a much-needed 85-79 victory over the Cairns Taipans in far North Queensland on Saturday night, was still a relief for the Breakers mentor as he got his team off the schneid for the season, with a chance to claw back to .500 agai...

A big confidence boost for the Breakers

Breakers dunk Taipans Take that for too fat. Under-pressure Breakers import Lamar Patterson responded to his army of critics with a game-changing breakout display for the Breakers in Cairns on Saturday night. Sure, he had some help via a standout contribution from his point guard Tai Webster (25 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists), but the timely return to form of Patterson (22 points off the bench, on 8-of-15 shooting), especially over the second half, was the key contribution in an 85-79 Breaker...