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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. Editor's Picks Sides were forced to operate amid unprecedented uncertainty, while the league did its best to outsmart a virus that's seemingly uncontrollable. It seems miraculous that, in the end, we ended up with all nine rosters filled without losing a significant amount of talent, ahead of a season th...

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 Melbourne in plenty of time to play a full part in the team's NBL pre-season campaign.

Anthony Au-Yeung/Getty Images Tom Abercrombie's 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 will be at least the first half of the season based in Melbourne and playing all their games on that ...