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Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images Corey Webster says the struggling Breakers must take a collective look in the mirror as they search for improvements. Just what the Breakers didn’t need. With all their problems, and the pressure swirling early, up next are perennial powerhouse the Perth Wildcats. Not once, but twice. And coming off a rare home defeat. At 0-2, with back-to-back road defeats to the Adelaide 36ers, the Breakers find themselves wedged into an early tight spot in this uncertain Austral...

Tai Webster had a much quieter second outing for the Breakers in another NBL defeat in Adelaide. The Breakers’ early NBL woes are piling up on the back of a second straight defeat to the Adelaide 36ers to open the new Australian NBL season. Despite some notable improvements from their first-up 94-91 overtime defeat last Friday, the Breakers were even less competitive second time out against the same opponents, crumbling to an 88-78 defeat in Wednesday night’s rematch at the Adelaide Entert...

Basketball: New Zealand Breakers start NBL season with overtime loss 22 Jan, 2021 11:02 AM 2 minutes to read Tai Webster of the Breakers shoots over Josh Giddey of the 36ers during the round two NBL match between the Adelaide 36ers and the New Zealand Breakers. Photo / Getty Images NZ Herald By: Simon Kay Despite 34 points from Tai Webster, the New Zealand Breakers started their Australian NBL season with a 94-91 defeat in Adelaide against the 36ers last night. The Breakers looked handily place...

Kelly Barnes/Getty Images Finn Delany and Tai Webster enjoy a moment en route to the Breakers overtime defeat to the 36ers in Adelaide. The New Zealand Breakers wasted a brilliant display from returning Tall Blacks star Tai Webster to cough up a sloppy 94-91 overtime defeat at the Adelaide 36ers in their NBL season opener on Friday night. Webster, making his first appearance for the Kiwi club since he left eight years ago as a teenage development prospect, carried an undermanned and off-key Br...

Coach Dan Shamir says there are no excuses for Kiwi club after a severely disrupted buildup.

This NBL off-season lasted nearly an entire year. Think about that for a second. We had a pandemic disrupt everything, players opt in and out of contracts, salary cuts across the entire league, the start to the new season pushed back and back, and teams re-located then re-relocated some more. Editors Picks Sides were forced to operate amid unprecedented uncertainty, while the league did its best to outsmart a virus thats seemingly uncontrollable. It seems miraculous that, in the end, we ended u...

Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images Breakers centre Rob Loe will join his team-mates in Melbourne several weeks ahead of schedule to prepare for NBL 2021. Mother Nature keeps to no-one’s schedule and in the case of the arrival of Breakers big man Rob Loe’s first baby, the timeline has been reset firmly in the team’s favour. Loe’s wife, Kelly, had their first baby boy in Auckland several weeks ahead of schedule, which means the experienced centre will be able to join his Breakers team-mates in M...

Anthony Au-Yeung/Getty Images Tom Abercrombies family will be in Melbourne as the Breakers look to make players as comfortable as possible. It may sound incongruous given what they’re about to step into, but Breakers coach Dan Shamir feels a comforting sense of assurance about the group he will assemble in Australia on Sunday to pursue an NBL championship like no other. In many ways the Auckland-based Australian NBL club will take a large step outside their comfort zone as they spend what wi...