2019-20 NBL Season + Off-season news

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Breakers just gave the Hawks a spanking

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Breakers just gave the Hawks a spanking

They look terrible and I had them making the playoffs!

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Terrible news for NZ Breakers centre Rob Loe suffering a fractured skull in last night's game against the Hawks.

On a brighter note the the game last night was the most watched game in NBL history with almost 2 million viewers watching live on the Facebook stream. The game was also the Breakers biggest home crowd since 2013 with 8,338 in attendance.

https://nbl.com.au/news/new-zealand-v-i ... bl-history

Also last round Round 3 the NBL recorded the biggest ever attendance for a seven game round with more than 53,000 attending the seven games. The average attendance per game was 7,576 the second highest for a round in NBL history. Crowds are up 11% for the same period last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/records-smashed ... rowds-soar

36ers host Cairns 7pm tonight.

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Breakers just gave the Hawks a spanking

But Melo got a dunk so everything is ok

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Qtr time

Taipans 30
Sixers 22

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H/T

Sixers 55
Taipans 49

Great second quarter from us there.

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3QT

Sixers 84
Taipans 69

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Final

Sixers 101
Taipans 97

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Nice get home to see the Sixers with a double-figure lead

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H/T

Sixers 50
Phoenix 47

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3QT

Phoenix 70
Sixers 65

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Final

Phoenix 101
Sixers 91

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Bad news for the struggling Illawarra Hawks with star import Aaron Brooks tearing his left achilles tendon in yesterday's game against Perth ruling him out for the rest of the season. The former NBA veteran averaged 17.9 ppg in his seven games with the Hawks.

Also the NZ Breakers have signed Sudanese-Australian Deng Deng as an injury replacement for centre Rob Loe. The 6'8" Deng played for the Sydney Kings last season and finished last season playing in Poland.

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Round 4 results:

NZ Breakers 103 (Henry 21, Hopson 17, Webster 17, Abercrombie 16) def Illawarra 72 (Brooks 19, Andersen 11, Ball 10)

Adelaide 101 (Randle 22, Johnson 19, Drmic 13, Griffin 13, Moore 12, McVeigh 10) def Cairns 97 (Oliver 21, Newbill 18, Machado 14, Deng 13, Noi 10)

Perth 110 (White 17, Cotton 16, Kay 12, Vague 12, Norton 10, Wagstaff 10) def SE Melbourne 79 (Crockett 12, Adnam 11)

Melbourne 104 (Long 27, Goulding 24, Trimble 24, Barlow 11) def NZ Breakers 98 (Ashley 24, Hopson 17, Webster 17, Henry 16, Hampton 14)

Sydney 94 (Ware 17, Louzada 14, Bogut 12, Bruce 12, Kickert 11, Tate 10) def Brisbane 79 (Sobey 21, Patterson 20, Braun 13)

SE Melbourne 101 (Roberson 24, Creek 18, Madgen 15, Gibson 14, Crockett 12, Pineau 11) def Adelaide 91 (Johnson 20, Moore 17, Griffin 14, Froling 11, Randle 11)

Perth 81 (Cotton 21, Kay 15, White 14) def Illawarra 76 (Coenraad 18, Ball 16)

Cairns 90 (Jawai 18, Oliver 17, Newbill 16, Machado 14, Deng 10) def Melbourne 85 (Long 21, Trimble 21, McCarron 17, Goulding 10)

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Round 5 TV games on SBS Viceland:

Thu 5pm Cairns at NZ Breakers

Sat 5pm Melbourne at SE Melbourne

Sun 2:30pm Perth at NZ Breakers
Sun 4:30pm Brisbane at Illawarra

In other news with the departure of lead assistant coach Paul Woolpert returning to the US for personal reasons the Perth Wildcats have announced former NBA player & veteran NBA assistant coach Scott Roth as his replacement.

https://www.wildcats.com.au/news/articl ... s-wildcats

Also the NBL has signed a deal with both the Euroleague and EuroCup to start broadcasting their games regularly on NBL TV.

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl-tv-to-live- ... mpetitions

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The Sydney Kings have signed former 36ers import Deshon Taylor as an injury replacement for Kevin Lisch. The Kings had a vacant import spot spare and bought out Taylor's contract with a team in Latvia he signed with last week.

https://nbl.com.au/news/sydney-sign-des ... eplacement

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Brisbane upset Perth 87-78.

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Qtr time

Sixers 24
Kings 12

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26-6 run by the Kings

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H/T

Kings 45
Sixers 43