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NBL New Zealand to host 2020 draft ahead of six-week season
NOT only is New Zealand’s National Basketball League (NBL) providing sports-deprived fans with a much needed reprieve, but it is doing it in style with a player draft to determine teams. In what will be a New Zealand NBL first, the 2020 Sal’s NBL competition will run for six weeks, with the seven competing teams […]
Draft Central’s Top 20 Players of the 2020 Sal’s NBL Showdown: Complete List
HERE is our complete list of the Top 20 Player of the 2020 Sal’s NBL Showdown. Click on any of the links below to view the corresponding article: #1 Tom Vodanovich (Jets) #2 Derone Raukawa (Airs) #3 Jordan Ngatai (Nuggets) #4 Marcel Jones (Airs) #5 Hyrum Harris (Jets) #6 Izayah Mauriohooho Le’afa (Huskies) #7 Taylor […]
2020 Sal’s NBL team review: Nelson Giants
NELSON Giants are first up in our team-by-team review series of the 2020 Sal’s National Basketball League (NBL) Showdown. The Giants ended up the bottom placed team after a sixth placed regular season finish, going down to Canterbury Rams in the first elimination final. We take a look at their season. Played: 15 Won: 5 […]
Rams buckle Airs, extend undefeated start to 3-0
ONLY two teams would remain undefeated in the NZNBL (New Zealand National Basketball League) following Saturday night, after the Canterbury Rams would pull away from the Taranaki Mountainairs in the final period off the back of Taylor Britt and Samuel Smith. Good shooting and ball movement would also prove to be deciding factors in helping […]
2020 Taranaki Mountainairs season preview: Airs pick up late gems to complement elite scorers
TARANAKI Mountainairs knew they would not have to wait long to enter last week’s 2020 Sal’s National Basketball League (NBL) Player Draft, holding the second overall pick ahead of the upcoming New Zealand NBL season. They used that pick on Derone Raukawa, a player Airs’ Chairman Laine Hopkinson described as “the best point guard in […]
NZNBL Draft: Who are some of the first round contenders?
WITH the 2020 New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL) Player Draft Order decided earlier today, the seven teams know where they stand. What they also know, is how successful their pre-selections were, and who they have managed to pick up prior to the unknown of draft night. There is plenty of talent on offer, and […]
NZNBL team snapshot: Otago Nuggets
AFTER five seasons out of the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL), Otago Nuggets are ready to return in the modified 2020 Sal’s NBL competition. Having begun their journey 30 years ago, the Nuggets have had a couple of hiatuses out of the league, with the last season being in 2014. Now returning to the […]
2019 NZNBL season recap: Wellington Saints take out title
AN undefeated season from the Wellington Saints saw the side take out the 2019 New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL) title. Draft Central throws back to last season with the new 2020 season upon us to see how each of the teams performed and whether they are competing this year. 1st Wellington Saints (18-0) The […]